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May 15, 2023

THE ROCA ONE DAY DESIGN CHALLENGE RETURNED FOR ITS THIRD MALAYSIAN EDITION, WITH PANG JIAN SHENG PICKING UP THE GRAND PRIZE OF MYR8,000 FOR HIS EXPRESSIVE DESIGN FOR THE BATHROOM SPACE.

The third edition of the Malaysian Roca One Day Design Challenge took place on the 2nd of October 2022 at the PAM Centre in Kuala Lumpur. In this edition, 195 students from various local colleges and universities took part in a design race against the clock. 

Roca One Day Design Challenge is a design contest driven by Roca, the global benchmark for bathroom products, which challenges students and professionals under the age of 30 to create original products related to the bathroom space in just one day. This design contest is also aimed at promoting and giving visibility to young talent in both design and architectural fields. The projects are assessed by renowned professionals in the design and architecture fields, as well as by the Managing Director of Roca Malaysia and Singapore. There are three monetary awards, with each design submitted in line with Roca’s commitment to sustainability and the environment.

As a global communication tool that aims to promote young talent, the Roca One Day Design Challenge is held in 15 countries and 18 cities, and positions Roca positively among young professionals in these locations due to the common format and visual identity regardless of where it takes place. 

This year’s theme focused on designing public bathrooms in major cities, with the aim to improve cleaning and hygiene conditions, as well as improve quality of life in neighbourhoods. The participants were challenged to design an urban public bathroom, which encapsulated all the above characteristics, as well as feasibility in the form of function of maintenance and economic installation.

The grand prize for this year’s edition of the Roca One Day Design Challenge was claimed by Pang Jian Sheng, who won MYR8,000 thanks to his project “Flower Pot”, which consists in a spacious bathroom wellintegrated into its environment. The design includes a self-sustaining micro-ecosystem that provides for the basic needs of the flora that live on it. The jury valued its celebration of the natural world and the way it conceptualized humanity’s connection to nature.

The second prize was awarded to Tengku Amirah binti Tengku Johari for her Gnuyap project, which netted her a prize of MYR5,000. Gnuyap features a bathroom, which is perfectly integrated into the urban landscape, with emphasis both on form and function. 

Alison Leong and Belle Chin from The One Academy picked up the third prize, receiving MYR3,000 for designing a piece of remarkable flexibility. Their design “The Orbit” is a portable public restroom, conceived as a simplistic circular space with an overall harmony between form and function, which blends within its surrounding through its play of external features.

ABOUT ROCA
Roca is a company dedicated to the design, production and marketing of bathroom products for architecture, construction and interior design. Founded in 1917, it combines tradition and knowledge with a passion for innovation and respect for the environment with the aim of meeting people’s needs and contributing to the improvement of society’s wellbeing. Roca is committed to innovation and has highly professional teams who endeavour to develop solutions for the bathroom space.

For more information, please visit www.roca.com