Ontario provincial parks have a treasure chest, aka thunderbox, at a discreet distance from every designated back country campsite. Facing away from the tent area, the lid provides some privacy.
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I guess it’s for one individual person. You only need one car, and no one else to hear/smell/watch you poop.
(could reply to numerous posters) needs more Bunuel!
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So Boston is seeing the same kind of out of control housing prices that NYC and San Fran had in the past couple of decades. The city government should really do something about that.
I’m afraid that’s going to be a problem here in the next decade, as lots of major tech cos are playing to build major infrastructure here. The City is trying to ensure housing equity and there are a few organizations dedicated to ensuring that, too, but it might be too little to stop the slide into this kind of housing market.
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Many already do. I don’t, but it’s not exactly a rare sentiment.
On the original post, though: I do wonder if there’s an extent to which this isn’t so much a design “choice,” as an attempt to modernize a 110 year old building and squeeze in an extra bedroom or bathroom without violating some obscure building code rule or having to rip out lots of other walls, wiring, or plumbing. I wouldn’t be surprised if the designers (privately) fully expect the buyers to put up (possibly unpermitted) walls.
My current home has a half bathroom in the basement. I asked the town what it would take to get a permit to expand it to a full. They said you can’t have a bedroom or full bathroom in a basement level, even for a raised ranch where the windows are big enough to meet egress requirements, because at some point that became a rule to prevent people from having unpermitted basement apartments.
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Yup. The median price of a house/condo in JP has more than doubled in the past 10 years.
The city government may try to do something about that, but Bostonians (like our counterparts in SF/NYC/Seattle) tend to bring out the NIMBY knives to any serious attempt at housing reform. As that $900k condominium shows, developers are more interested in “pricey shiny” than in affordable and practical when it comes time to build or renovate. I have relatives in the Denver area, and they’re seeing the same kind of real estate trends there too.
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We learned nothing from 2008… The student debt issue is going to implode, too, if we don’t do something about it, and all we need is another housing bubble to go along with that.
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From a fascinating NHK World (from Japan) documentary about their super toilets:
And then there was the hotel room I had in Singapore the same summer, the toilet was in the room, and the only concession to privacy was… a roller blind hung from the ceiling which you pulled down in front of you once you’d sat down 
. Luckily I was travelling alone, it was a double room and I can only imagine one person would go out for a walk while the other took care of business.
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Frankly, I don’t remember. An undiagnosed seizure disorder screwed my memory of those times. Probably for the good.
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So it has the same design concept as a typical prison cell? Nothing can be hidden.
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I offer you my Schroedinger’s condolences/congratulations.
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Good one!
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Let’s hope they have better enforcement than Home Depot. 
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There’s another fancy new building opening up near me, that replaced some affordable artist housing. People are pissed for a number of reasons, but apparently part of the reason the new building is built the way it’s built, with limited space fetching higher prices, is all because of one NIMBY who complained about their view.
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with no walls or doors
To be fair, if you skip one, you really need to skip both.
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