.....would someone design something like this?

I must be missing something about this. What's the big deal? Is it that you can see everyone but no one can see you in the loo?

My question is, what is the point.

I think the point is to have a bathroom that reflects the surroundings and to make it practically disappear in a field of vision. That's just a cigar smoker's guess, I dunno.

because they can...

... i probably wouldn't use it though... i'd feel weird.

The original lead to this picture was "Would you use this". The fact that the question had to be asked in the first place makes suspect the efficacy of the design as well as the wisdom of approving such an expensive experiment. As far as it's use on a personal level, "Any port in a storm" is my motto. I would contend however that neither my daughters nor my wife would make use of this facility and that, arguably, neither would the majority of females I know making it's design an interesting waste of space and money.

But is it art?

and if you use it during hours of darkness and turned on the light the effect would be reversed

To make some people ask "Why in the hell....." of course ,lol

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"To make some people ask "Why in the hell....." of course ,lol"

Well, that's a good point. It's one of the purposes of art, I guess.

When you gotta go... you gotta go!!!

I think that'd be cool.

Be fun to take a girl in there and do the dirty while people walked by just feet away, don't you think?

Wouldn't be very respectful, or romantic... but fun.

It would be fun to do it without a girl too.....only creepier.

With that in mind Mac, picture the unit placed on the corner of Castro and Market in San Francisco.....or...............better yet, don't.

"eye of the beholder" I guess.

Because, we don't understand what is different. This challenges what we know to be comfortable. We can see out when no one can see in. Ususally this deed is done while we can not see out and others can not see in.

This makes us uncomfortable!

Cool

I dunno....I like to pee in plain view.

After I bought my piece of the world, for months I would come home from work, whip'er out and pee right in the middle of my yard with my head held high and hands on my hips.

Sort of like telling everyone to kiss my butt (I've worked through these issues since and now only pee where my ****-head neighbor can watch).

A glass crapper on a street corner?

BAD VIBES, too risky... Just my luck, I would stop in on the day someone decides to run it over!