Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Street Furniture Design Goes to Trident Public Toilet by Yan Gu
Yan Gu recognized for street furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Trident Public Toilet by Yan Gu, designed for Mccacti, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Street Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 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.
More About Trident Public Toilet
Trident is a public toilet designed as a standardized and modular street building. Each unit is a single-storey structure with an area of 40 to 70 square meters. The facade is clad with a perforated panel curtain wall finished in blue fluorocarbon paint. A photovoltaic system on the roof supplies electricity for the toilet and can also support nearby residents. Sensor faucets, flush valves, an integrated artificial marble washing counter and an air purification system keep the interior clean and easy to maintain.
About Yan Gu
Mccacti is a cross-border innovative and experienced urban renewal full-chain consulting company, a company involved in urban strategic deployment and renewal with data of urban resident demand, and a full-dimensional brand management thinking and practice innovative company, a new creative company integrating consulting, design, cultural and content innovation.
Award Record
This recognition makes Yan Gu a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Street and City Furniture Design Award
The A' Street Furniture Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good street furniture designs by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to street furniture designers, industrial design studios, street furniture brands and street furniture manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include benches, bollards, bus shelters, bicycle racks, litter bins and planters. The awarded street furniture designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/street-furniture
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/100600
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/100600
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!100600
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/272849
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Trident Public Toilet
- Function
- Public Toilet
- Category
- Street Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Social Impact
- Colors
- Cornflower Blue, Dim Gray, Sky Blue, Midnight Blue and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Mccacti
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yan Gu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #100600
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Trident is a public toilet built by customizing the "product standardization process",unified visual+modularity+humanization+technology，to bring users a better sense of experience. Different from ordinary public toilets,a photovoltaic power generation system is specially set up on the roof of Trident , which can also provide power support for the surrounding residents to use the environment, while satisfying the basic conditions of the public toilets' own electricity.
- Inspiration
- Based on the social background of the "Toilet Revolution", Trident designs public utility buildings as products and hopes to solve the problems of dirty and poor urban public toilets, difficult to find locations, aging equipment, and weak management.
- Research
- Research Type: Social Public Facilities Research Research target: To solve problems in urban public toilet renewal Method: Product Design + Operation Integration Data collection and research tools: extensive social research Participants or experiments: air purification experiments, building facade module experiments Results: 30 public toilets in Shanghai Pudong have been put into normal use Insights: productive architectural design will become a new way to solve social public facilities architecture.
- Challenge
- In addition to the architectural design itself, the greater difficulty lies in the overall improvement of the use environment, including air purification systems, identification systems, and administrator training, etc.
- Realization and Technology
- The facade walls are decorated with blue fluorocarbon paint perforated panel curtain wall, brushed stainless steel metal logo uses blue Acrylic to form a fixed social cognition. The internal wall surface, floor and all facilities are treated with gray waterproof paint. The hand-washing table is designed with all-corner artificial marble integrated hand-washing table to reduce the difficulty of cleaning, which is visually beautiful and reduces the accumulation of stained waster water.
- Operation and Interaction
- The blue system signage,together with Beicai public toilet exclusive LOGO for promotional slogan display and indoor map guidance. A human body induction lamp is added to the toilet board, which is in off state when no one is using it, and remains on for 3 minutes to remind users. The design of sensor faucet and flush valve,clean and sanitary, avoid cross infection.Air purification machine and special fragrance system to improve the air quality in the toilet.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Shanghai Pudong in April 2019, was completed in October 2019, and was put into use in October 2019.
- Specifications
- The size of each public toilet project is different. All are single-storey independent buildings with an area ranging from 40-70 square meters and a floor height ranging from 3.5-5 meters.
