
Introduction
Project 2020 : 20 Architects, 20 Latrines, for 20 Families in Year 2020
The Site



Team

20 architects, students from Cambodia and Singapore, as well as industry friends. Our director, Ar. Chu personally brought together these parties to design and build the 20 latrines personally by hand. The project was not just a design project, but also a logistics endeavour especially since it was the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

20 Designs


20 Hours
The project team got down to work for 20 hours and built the latrine entirely from scratch. Students from the two local universities, together with the Singaporean and Cambodian architects, worked hand in hand despite meeting for the first time. They readily took on the architect’s drawings and did the hard labour and laid bricks according to the designs. The latrines were successfully built after a solid 20 hours, complete with a working sanitary flush system. It was a wonderful cross-border collaboration project between Cambodia and Singapore.



100 Latrines
After the project team built the 20 latrines with the 20 unique designs, the local villagers took on the designs and replicated them across another 100 latrines in the same region. Project 2020 has demonstrated that good design is not just for the privileged few, but should and can also be a service for the poorer strata of society. Project 2020 aims to not just give the gift of sanitation and hygiene for the villagers, but to leave a long-lasting impression and inspire the greater community through the day-to-day use of the toilet facility.


