Sento Kids 2019-2020

Designers: Gurol Erkal, Vtra Design Team, Eczacibasi Building Products, Istanbul, Turkey
Manufacturers: Eczacibasi Building Products, Bilecik, Turkey

Most modern parenting methods focus on the importance of helping children grow into independent and self-sufficient individuals. The design of children’s environment, accordingly, includes objects in dimensions and weights suitable for their use. The aim is to enable children to move on their own without needing adult assistance.

Ergonomic design, perfect bathrooms for children

The VitrA Sento Kids Collection focuses on toilet use at two main milestones in the personal development of children: three to five and five to six years. Age, sex, height, weight and knee heights of children between the ages of three to five and five to six were taken into account as their toilet behaviours were observed. Developed by the VitrA Innovation Centre Ergonomics Laboratory engineers, the Sento Kids Collection is the result of intense research. Specially designed products for these periods aim to transform the toilet experience into a natural process.

Colours and designs to appeal to children

Sento Kids Collection is designed to create bathrooms where children enjoy to be in. Designs and colours that will suit their colourful worlds await for children. The colour palette of the Sento Kids Collection was chosen to encourage children to feel they belong in the bathroom, an environment they can use safely. A range colours free of ‘gender codes’ offer versatility in design and were chosen to focus on the senses of, and to support the development of, specific age groups.

Safe bathrooms for children

The majority of accidents at home occur in the bathroom and kitchen. Wet, and consequently slippery floors make bathrooms the most risky area of all. With skeletal and muscular structures much more delicate than those of adults, children’s safety in the bathroom is paramount.

The Sento Kids Collection aims to minimise accidents in the bathroom. Tests on children’s physical condition and use of bathrooms carried out at the VitrA Innovation Centre directed the design of Sento Kids to provide a physically safe environment as well as an educational and hygienic one. Rounded corners and flexible materials used in washbasins and WC pans intend to transform bathrooms and toilets into spaces that banish injury.