Sanitary faucet 卫生水龙头 by Jiankun Sun is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 浴室家具与卫浴设计 Competition Category.

铜卫浴· 2018

Sanitary faucet 卫生水龙头

by Jiankun Sun

Client: Wuhan University of Technology

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 卫浴 Category

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The Design

About Sanitary faucet 卫生水龙头

卫生水龙头是一款极简主义水龙头，旨在让用水过程可视化。出水口直接充当开关：将出水口向下按压并倾斜即可开启水流，将其抬回水平位置则关闭水流。在关闭水龙头的过程中，水流仍持续冲洗双手，因此双手始终保持洁净。玻璃管中储存的水量恰好够一人洗手之用，使用水量一目了然。玻璃管同时也起到减缓水流速度的作用。该水龙头由铸铁管与玻璃制成。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Sanitary faucet 卫生水龙头是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Sanitary faucet 卫生水龙头将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Sanitary faucet 卫生水龙头出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This faucet is a minimalist style design, the outlet directly works as a faucet switch, press down and tilt the outlet, the faucet will be opened; Just need to lift the outlet to make it level to close the faucet.The hands are always flushwd by water during the closing process, will not make hands dirty again during closing the faucet. The glass tube on the left can just store enough water that can be used to clean one person's hands. This allows the user to visually see the amount of water they have used. At the same time, it can reduce the drainage rate, make more efficient use of water, and improve the user's water saving awareness. When the glass tube runs out of water, users just need to turn off the faucet and then open it again. The glass tube will immediately be filled with water.
Dimensions & Packaging: The faucet's size is 60mm * 35mm * 248mm. It is made of cast iron and glass.
Tags: Visualize, save water ,sanitary faucet
Production Technology: This faucet is made of cast iron pipe and glass tube. The way of turning the outlet to open or close the faucet is easy to operate and can reduce the faucet components, reduce costs. Glass tube storing water can slow the flow of water and conserve water.
Design Challenge: The innovation of this faucet is the visualization of water consumption, and at the same time, it has an innovative switching method,users will not dirty their hands when opening and closing the faucet. The glass pipe storing water can slow down the speed of water to achieve the purpose of saving water.
Research: When people use the faucet to wash hands, they often open the largest stalls to wash hands unconsciously, they don't know how much water have used during they wash our hands. And the general faucet switch is alone setted at the top or beside, switch will become dirty when it is touched by more than one person, After users wash hands, they have to touch the switch to close the faucet, it will make users' hands dirty again. This faucet will not dirty user' hands when they turn off faucet and users can see how much water have used. The way of opening and closing the faucet is controlled by adjusting the inclination of the outlet, tilting downwards to open and make it level to turn off faucet.The glass tube can see how much water we use, it can arouse the user's awareness of water conservation. The water stored in glass tube can slow down the flow of water and helps users to save water.
Inspiration: The design of this faucet is inspired by the well pressure device in ancient China. Glass tube can just save enough water for one person to wash hands, so that users can visually see their own water consumption, Improve users' awareness of water conservation. Turn on the faucet by pressing the faucet's outlet and tilting it downwards. Lifting the outlet up to level can close the faucet. The glass tube will be rapidly filled with water when faucet is closed. Since the hands are always rinsed during the faucet are turning off , it is sanitary.
Project Duration: Projekt dauer is 3 months.The project started in June 2017 and finished in September 2017 in Wuhan.
Operation Flow: The outlet directly works as a faucet switch, press down the outlet, the faucet can be opened ; Just need to lift the outlet to make it level can close it .The hand is always flushed by water during the process of closing , will not make hands dirty again when closing the faucet. The glass tube can just store enough water for one person to clean their hands. This allows the user to visually see the amount of water they have used. At the same time, it can reduce the drainage rate, make more efficient use of water, and improve the user's water saving awareness. When the glass tube runs out of water, users just need to turn off the faucet and then open it. The glass tube will immediately be filled with water again.
Team Members: Jiankun Sun
Kairui Wan
Image Credits: Jiankun Sun