Modern
Modern safety rest area buildings are those that most closely reflect the modern architectural aesthetic of the 1950s and 1960s. Structures designed in this vein do not exhibit an identifiable influence of the cultural or natural history of their state; in contrast to basic traditional structures they reflect a high style design aesthetic.
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Regional
The use of regional characteristics in the design of safety rest area buildings and structures is one of the most prolific design concepts used during the mid-century period. This aesthetic was commonly used in picnic shelters but can also be identified in toilet building deign. Regional design is characterized by the use of programmatic imagery that reflects culturally historic or landscape characteristics of a particular region.
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Designs reflect culturally historic elements of the local region or state; regional design is often most dramaticlly expressed in picnic shelters, these shelters are often paired with modern or regional modern toilet building design; toilet buildings of regional design are almost always paired with picnic shelters of the same design theme; materials may reflect regionally traditional building materials; look for creative use of common materials, brick, wood, stone and metal are common.