This $5K Porta Potty Promises to Elevate the On-the-Go Bathroom Experience
Prefab builder Jupe just launched The Portal, a space-age bathroom meant to outshine its function-first predecessors.
Prefab builder Jupe just launched The Portal, a space-age bathroom meant to outshine its function-first predecessors.
The future promised flying cars, balanced meals in the form of a pill, and crime-free cities that ran 100 percent on renewable energy. While we wait for those, one company has reimagined portable toilets, which, we have to admit, were long overdue for an update.
Jupe says its design for The Portal, a portable toilet, was inspired by Bjarke Ingels’s Copenhill and Sluishuis projects as well as Donald Judd’s minimalist and monolithic structures.
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From Jupe—a company that emerged during the pandemic with a concept for flat-pack hospital rooms before pivoting to sell prefab glamping tents—is The Portal, a porta potty that’s meant to supplant the dark, cramped, scary Honey Bucket you’re used to using at festivals and fairgrounds. The company’s CEO and chief designer, Jeff Wilson, explains.
"If you’ve ever been forced to use a porta potty before, you know it ranks down there with the lowest of human experiences," he says. "With The Portal, you step into what appears to be a high-tech time machine that teleports you away to some sort of minimalist art museum."
Its metallic shell and geometric form give it a futuristic look.
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Jupe CEO and chief designer Jeff Wilson poses with The Portal in Northern California. The front facade is a large piece of two-way glass, and users can pull down a retractable screen for privacy.
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