“Spaces” is a new digital app from Pressalit Care to inspire and assist architects and specifiers when designing bathrooms for the less abled.
With virtual room sets created for applications within a hospital, assisted living facilities, a hotel as well as a private home, each is illustrated with layouts and bathroom elements most suited to the environment.
Encompassing both Pressalit Care’s fixed and flexible solutions, the app shows the differing degrees of adjustability, offering the optimal bathroom layout with space requirements, specification and installation details for each suggested Pressalit Care product. With clear visuals, it explains how the elements relate to each other and how the individual requirements of the installation can be taken into account. Where flexibility is required both horizontal and rise/fall applications are included, alongside Pressalit Care’s ergonomically designed range of basins, shower seats, grab rails, handles and toilets.
Andrew Lowndes, UK Sales Manager at Pressalit Care says, “We’ve been using the “Spaces” app in our CPD seminars with architects and it’s proving to be an extremely valuable tool. It enables users to explore and discover different opportunities for layout and to fully understand how our products are most effective in creating long term solutions for future proofing bathrooms for the less abled in a range of environments.
“Being able to visualise digitally what the bathroom will look like and how the specialist elements work together is not only practical and exceptionally useful, but can be an inspirational contribution to the creative design process. The ”Spaces” app is something every architect and specifier should have at their fingertips.”
The RIBA approved Pressalit Care CPD seminar, Best Practice in Accessible Bathroom Design forms part of the RIBA core curriculum under design for accessibility.
Originally developed by Pressalit Care for its home Danish market, the “Spaces” app has now been released for the UK. The free Apple app is now available and an Android version will be released soon. The web version is available at http://en.pressalit.com/flexible-solutions-for-kitchens-and-bathrooms/spaces
As well as presenting specific suggestions for different bathroom solutions, Pressalit Care “Spaces” provides detailed information on the ergonomic qualities, adjustment options, designs as well as test methods of the bathroom solutions – in short every detail that the architect or specifier needs when planning a bathroom for the less abled.
The ”Spaces” app runs alongside Pressalit Care’s other services for architects and specifiers, which includes the introduction of Building Information Modelling (BIM) for its complete range of bathroom solutions; and for those who prefer to be more hands on, the company runs a test room facility at Brunel University in Middlesex where bathroom layouts and products can be seen in action prior to order.
Pressalit Care has been designing bathrooms and kitchens for over forty years where practicality is a pre-requisite.
More information and stockists for Pressalit Care’s range of adjustable bathroom and kitchen products,www.pressalit.com or email uk@pressalit.com
