9 gram toilet

Resignation is a word that doesn’t appeal to Swedish architect Anders Wilhelmson. It was while listening to Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas during a seminar that he made up his mind. When Koolhaas told about a helicopter travel over Lagos and said that architects can only look at the world, not change it, some kind of rage started to grow inside of Wilhelmson. ”There must be something beyond this resignation”, he thought, and that was the start of "Peepoo", a sanitarian solution for the poorest.
Architects usually want to solve problems by building. But people in the slum build their houses themselves and have more urgent needs. Like toilets. "Peepoo" is a nine gram mini sewage treatment works which has being tested in Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya. It’s a little plastic, biodegradable bag which transforms the faeces into fertiliser with a market value. Way to go, Wilhelmson!

Photo: Peepeople/Camilla Wirseen