Bathroom equipments are standardized and normalized, thus the space is almost always organized in the same way. The improvement of ventilation allowed for the bathrooms to be removed from the facades, but also made for them to have natural light, a luxury, which implied for space to lose in quality. Bathrooms are now functional spaces where the equipments are against the walls and in which the user finds himself at the center, as soon as he walks through the door. In parallel and specially in hotels, it has been demonstrated that the conception of nudity and privacy is evolving ; more and more often, some bathroom walls are replaced by glass which opens the space on the room. Allegory Studio asks itself about bathrooms being conceived as spaces; aside from the toilets, could bathrooms evolve from being a space to being furniture ? With a triangular shape and being independant from any walls, Roundabath is a bathroom-object which invites to turn around it. Not far from a wall, it generates secondary spaces, as well as …
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