Tips of fountain design Part 1/3

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When dealing with the question of fountain design, quite often a few simple and e cient initial recommendations are required, as are
replies to questions that are more frequently asked than you might imagine. Therefore, both this and future posts on this blog are going to
set out a series of considerations to be taken into account when tackling the design of an architectural fountain. As altogether there are
quite a number of points to be considered, this post focuses on the technological and construction parts as well as analyzing architectural
fountains with nozzles.

1.-Technology … has to be permanently at the service of your imagination. Once you have your ‘idea’ of an architectural fountain in terms
of space, acoustics and color, its image will represent a more or less complex composition involving water jets, fans, falls, run-offs, water
mirrors, sound and light effects calling for various technological, sculptural and construction items:

Location of the water feature fountain: (public park, square, gardens, shopping mall, covered patio, indoors, other);

Reason for its use (main attraction; to separate areas as a type of barrier,…)

Esthetic requirements for the water feature- the formal project will be improved if handled by an artist rather than a water technician
or hydraulics expert, whose job is to use the available technology to produce the artwork and make it unique

3.-Avoid excessive use of visible technological parts and tiresome repetitions of jets and water-falls. Why restrict yourself to being a
‘copycat’ when you can be a creator? Creating is to combine a synthesis of knowledge and imagination within the laboratory of the
individual or group fantasy you belong to.

In order to make tted nozzles, piping, etc. less visible, i.e. even when the architectural fountain is not in operation, you can choose to
conceal them among stones (gravel, ‘Chinese’ stones, river and beach pebbles, arti cial stones, etc.) and different construction shapes
which, once built into the design, will help to blend them into the background design of the fountain.

4.-Analysis of fountains
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them.. For example: if you have chosen to use ‘solid’ water jets for the architectural fountain, you can use lance jet nozzles I, II and III
to obtain heights of between 0.25 and 100 meters.

Determine the heights of the vertical jets. The choice of jet diameter and height depends on the artistic design of the fountain.

Determine the falling distance for parabolic ‘solid’ or ‘continuous’ jets. That can be estimated for wind-free situations by using
Spreadsheets, for example.

Use the Technical Manuals to ascertain : ow and pressure rates required to meet the design expectations.

Example: Imagine that you want to create an architectural fountain with a circuit of continuous vertical jets of 10 mm in diameter
and 3 meters in height. Using the technical charts that accompany Safe Rain Nozzle I, you can nd the ow rates in liters per minute
and pressure rates in mca (1 mca = 1,42 lb. per sq. inch) that you need to deliver to each nozzle in order to achieve the required result.

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solve this and other questions, we will publish new posts on this blog concerning ‘Hydraulic calculations for architectural fountains’.

Consider organizing your fountain using groups or sets of nozzles.Grouping nozzles into sets that can be fed independently of each
other enables the architectural fountain to work at a reduced level at times and on dates when there is less public presence. This
helps to reduce operating costs and provides exibility for maintenance.

In future posts on this blog, we shall continue to list recommendations about architectural fountain design, starting with an analysis of
water storage

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