In order to enjoy a day at the beach, bathers sometimes need… sanitary facilities. These – and other public facilities – can now be found on Barcelona’s coast: Quintana Arquitectes have distributed colorful beach cubes with different “contents”. The color reveals what is inside the cube: Yellow houses toilets, red medical care, and the police are hidden behind blue.
The structure is based on a system of prefabricated modules with an edge length of 2.50 meters. A cuboid of square tubes is clad with lightweight sandwich panels so that the cubes can be easily dismantled in winter and reassembled in summer. The system also allows different arrangements. The colored interior and exterior walls are clad with small square tiles – traditionally Catalonian.
Read more in Baumeister 6/2015