What makes this design different or better?
Entering or getting out of the bath tub may be a dangerous undertaking to everybody, while even sitting on or raising from the vase may be troublesome to people with motor impairment. When projecting an accessible and safe house for the 21st century, appropriate planning of this room is mandatory to avoid inconveniences. The bathroom has to be a comfortable and reassuring space that can favour and sustain both ordinary and unexpected body movements. Careful planning must provide the employment of safe materials and devices and it must take into account the requirements of users with any kind of impairment due to age and temporary or permanent disability, but also of children, who are often compelled to acrobatic performances to use the bathroom.

Our research is centered on people and intended to meet their needs: in this new century, we shall witness the growing of a social stratum which is not necessarily unable of autonomy, but surely more fragile than the general population: the elderly. The challenge we took up was to develop a product that encounters performance requirements such as accessibility, adaptability, adjustability, safeness and availability, providing optimal support to people with motor difficulties and enhanced comfort to normal subjects without putting the emphasis on the user's disability. Through our experience, we meant to show that "accessible projecting", rather than a utopia, represents the means to achieve the aim of planning "to human measure".