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Sustenta Bathroom Toilet by Manuel Alonso Martinez Rivera Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Manuel Alonso Martinez Rivera for sustainable products, projects and green design
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Sustenta Bathroom Toilet by Manuel Alonso Martinez Rivera, designed for Helvex, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Sustenta Bathroom Toilet
Sustenta is a 2 piece toilet that aims to redefine eco-consciousness. It sets a new standard in water conservation by using 2.5 liters (0.66 gallons) per flush, which is lower than the actual ecologic toilets that range from 3.5L to 4.8L. This represents a reduction of up to 60 percent in water usage, marking a viable option for day a day sustainability. Recognizing the importance of water conservation and toilet functionality, Sustenta delivers a new toilet experience that also contributes to the preservation of one of the planet's key resource.
About Manuel Alonso Martinez Rivera
I’m a 35 years old mexican product / industrial designer with +10 years of professional experience, both national and international. I have designed more than 80 different products (and counting), all of them are actually at retail shops in several countries throughout north,central, south America and overseas like the Emirates and Europe. During my professional performance, the designs that i have developed, have been awarded with various prizes in Mexico and other countries like Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany and more. I´m so passionate about everything that has to do with the development of useful and effective solutions for mankind´s day - a - day.
Award Record
With this recognition, Manuel Alonso Martinez Rivera is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Award
The A' Sustainable Product Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good sustainable products by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to sustainable product designers, green product manufacturers, eco-friendly product brands and industrial designers from all countries. Entries typically include sustainable projects, environment friendly designs, recycled, upcycled and bio-degradable products. Awarded sustainable product designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/sustainable-product
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/157612
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/157612
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!157612
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/352353
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.helvex.com.mx
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Sustenta Bathroom Toilet
- Function
- Bathroom Toilet
- Category
- Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Sustainability
- Colors
- Gray, Dim Gray, Light Slate Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Lavender
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Helvex
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Manuel Alonso Martinez Rivera
- Country
- Mexico
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #157612
Credits
- Team
- Manuel Martínez Rivera, Daniel Verde Hernandez, Fernando Diaz Ochoa, Jonathan Blancas Sanchez, Eduardo Montoya Orozco and Marco Aurelio Sanchez
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Sustenta uses only 2.5 liters (0.66 gallons) per flush, its performance is well below the consumption that is considered "ecologic" (3.5 and 4.8 lpd),which represents a saving of 60% of water. Water preservation is crucial, but so it is to keep the toilet efficiency at its most, so users can enjoy a high quality product and preserve our vital liquid at the same time. It was specially designed to enhance the water flushing force to maintain a total dragging and cleaning performance. Developed and tested to successfully comply ASME standards.
- Inspiration
- Inspired in contemporary and metropolitan design, it has sleek, well defined surfaces made possible thanks to the highest quality in vitreous ceramics with long lasting brightness. Its shape was defined by production process to ensure the minimum quantity of scrap and a maximum quality efficiency regarding molding, casting, etc.
- Research
- Sustenta uses only 2.5 liters (0.66 gallons) per flush, its performance is well below the consumption that is considered "ecologic" (3.5 and 4.8 lpf),which represents a saving of 60% of water, having the highest water saving rate in the world. Its aimed to be sold in residential, institutional and public markets due to its working pressure rate (0.2 - 6 bar). It can save up to 88.2 liters per day (32,000 liters per year) for an average house use of 7 times per day. Saving up to 1,191,141 Mega Liters / year in Mexico alone.
- Challenge
- The hardest part of this project was to define, test and ensure the flushing quality with the lesser amount of water possible by running numerous fluid dynamics tests and make the pertinent changes to the physical / aesthetic design. Its shape answers to the premise of making a product cost efficient and with the less amount of scrap possible
- Realization and Technology
- High quality vitreous China ceramicware, produced by molding. The toilet´s basin and trap are (like the rest of the main body) enameled to ensure a top notch performance. The shape of this product is based on efficent costs of production, so that it can be bought by almost anyone (280 euros - 260 USD) it uses the principle of gravity for its performance and several fluid dynamics analysis were conducted to establish the correct shape that allowed us to perform at low pressures and 2.5 liters per flush of water consumption.
- Operation and Interaction
- Sustenta creates a vortex which enhances the flushing force through the ceramic basin and trap in order to drag the waste efficiently, maximizing its performance, this keeps the basin clean and overall the whole toilet. It complies with the ASME standard tests, taking away efficiently 400gr of organic waste, with an overall dragging distance of 14m. Its best feature is the water saving rate, but also its working pressure, allowing Sustenta to fully function at low and high pressures (from 0.2 to 6 bar).
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January and finished in December 2023 in Mexico City, it was launched on mid December 2023.
- Specifications
- Product: 342 mm x 701 mm x 811 mm Package 1: 660mm x 760 mm x 422 mm Package 2: 360 mm x 180 mm x 425 mm
- Keywords
- sustenta, water saving toilet, 2.5 liters per flush, sustainable toilet, 0.66 gallons per flush
