12 2015 Roca’s W+W is on show at the Barcelona Design Museum Design for life. 99 projects for the real world shows the role played by design in the search for solutions to everyday problems, improving public wellbeing Roca’s W+W was one of the projects selected for the first temporary exhibition at the Barcelona Design Museum as an object designed to make people’s lives easier by combining a basin and WC in one, ensuring water savings and the optimisation of space. From a system to transform objects such as a normal chair into a wheelchair to a device that turns any bicycle into an electric bike, as well as a flying boat drone for firefighting, 99 objects were brought together at the Barcelona Design Museum in an attempt to answer the question: “What role does design play in today’s world?” The W+W at the Barcelona Design Museum Presentation of the first study on the bathroom space in hotels The importance guests attach to the room, the average score they give it and the reasons for its renovation are some of the conclusions arising from this report tear over time is the main reason for its renovation. It thereforespace in terms of customer satisfaction and to analyse the comes as no surprise that, in two out of every three cases,characteristics of hotel renovation to detect opportunities and In Barcelona, with an audience of key figures from theage was the reason for starting works in this respect.areas for improvement. Spanish hotel industry, Roca presented the results of theIt is also worth highlighting that 70% of Spain’s 14,822 hotelsWith the 360º Study of the Renovation of Bathrooms 360º Study of the Renovation of Bathrooms in Spain’s Hotels,were built before 2000, which is why 55% have alreadyin Spain’s Hotels, Roca once again demonstrates its the first exhaustive research project conducted in Spain intoinvested in renovating the bathrooms in their rooms with ancommitment to the Spanish hotel sector by providing valuable bathroom space in hotels. average frequency of every 8.6 years, almost three timesinformation for implementing measures aimed at meeting the The study revealed for the first time that the bathroom spacesmore than in private homes.needs of its customers. in Spanish hotels pass with flying colours (7.8 out of 10) andCarried out between March and June 2014 by the market that more than nine out of ten users (91%) consider themresearch company Ikerfel, the study focused on two- to important when evaluating an establishment. When it comesfive-star establishments, which provide 84% of hotel beds, to recommending a hotel, the bathroom space is vital forand took into account the opinions of more than a thousand 88%. hotel managers, customers, maintenance and purchasing The report also revealed that cleanliness is the top reason formanagers, and designers. On-site observations were considering a bathroom as satisfactory and that wear andalso carried out to gauge the importance of the bathroom 17