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Most of the bathrooms in hotels are transparent. What is the idea of this design?

Traveling with colleagues, the most embarrassing thing is to encounter the transparent hotel bathroom. I have been trained by my clients all day, and I have to take a shower before going to bed. Why should the hotel design the bathroom to be transparent? Do they really care about the privacy of their guests? ? Some people say that cheap small rooms use glass, while high-end hotels use solid walls. The building area of a room in Shanghai Chongshe is 70 square meters. According to the standard of "Classification and Evaluation of Stars in Foreign-related Hotels", this is already a quite large room in a five-star hotel. But the bathroom in this hotel is completely transparent.

At present, there are two kinds of bathroom partitions: glass partition and brick partition. The glass partition is easy to install, but the raw materials are laminated glass and tempered glass, each of which is not cheap. Moreover, the price of hardware profiles is relatively expensive. Brick partition materials are cheap, but they need to be bricked, waterproof and tiled? , complex process, long construction period. So it is difficult to generalize which is cheaper. ? 195 1 completed the famous building Farnsworth Building. Even from the present point of view, its bold use of glass is still very trendy. However, the bathroom design of this house is relatively closed and narrow, and the interior decoration is also very old-fashioned.

It was not until the 1960s that the post-war economic prosperity brought about the improvement of residents' living standards that people began to discover the leisure enjoyment function of toilets. Functions such as jacuzzi and dresser were crammed into the bathroom. Some high-end houses and hotels even began to use the design of double-sided basins and double bathtubs. In the eyes of designers, the bathroom is not an irrelevant room, but the main body of living space. Transparent bathroom is actually the product of this design trend. In addition to the style itself, the bathroom is designed to be transparent and does have many practical functions.

If you unfold a hotel plan, you will find that most rooms have only one window, and insufficient lighting is a common problem in many hotels. If the bathroom is made transparent, the bathroom can make more use of natural light for lighting. As for privacy, many "transparent" bathrooms are equipped with curtains and more advanced dimming glass. This kind of glass will produce atomization effect once it is electrified, so don't worry at all.