Finalist

WCircle

Category: Professional category

Designed by: Charbel El Tawil (Lebanon)

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Charbel Tawil

Charbel Tawil is an Interior Architect born on June 13, 1985 in Beirut. In 2008, Charbel graduated from the Lebanese University with a Master’s degree in Interior Architecture, and passed the MOOC Product Design course at the TU Delft University (Netherlands, 2016) with distinction. Before setting up his own practice in 2016, he collaborated in numerous interior design projects with SEK Architects and Polypod, in addition to product and furniture design. Charbel's design studio explores design solutions and products for interior architectural projects varying between educational, such as the Saifi Institute for Arabic Language, and also offices, as YB Law Firm, along with residential apartments of various scales.

WCircle

WCircle is an intelligent and ecological bathroom that allows the optimization of the space used for this purpose. With a central revolving pod, the user can select the bathroom element he/she wishes to use: basin, WC or shower.

This solution is ideal for reduced spaces such as bedrooms or studios. Moreover, WCircle features a self-cleaning system and a grey water filtration system that recycles the water that has been used, minimizing the ecological footprint.