Problems in Sculpture Fountain, Fountain Design, Fountain Construction, Plaza Fountain Design

The fountain has developed rapidly in recent years. There are many famous fountains in the country and the whole world for people to enjoy entertainment. This is a kind of fountain culture, and it is the expression of people’s dependence on water all over the world. People’s demand for culture has promoted the development of fountains. In China, cities with water expect a landmark fountain. The fountain has emerged as a part of urban construction.

In the process of wide application of fountains, some problems and deficiencies have also appeared. Some misunderstandings and bad tendencies should be brought to the attention of people. Otherwise it will have a negative impact on the healthy development of the fountain design industry.

1. The blindness in the design of the program often leads to the failure of the work, making the work difficult to exist for a long time.

2.The unreasonable design of the detail directly affects the effect of the work.

3. The counterfeit products with high price and low quality directly affect the reputation of the relevant manufacturers and companies.

The blind performance in the design of the scheme is that it is separated from the local actual situation, seeking for  the big, the whole, the high and the first.  The result is that the fountain that is made is not in harmony with the environmental atmosphere, which often leads to large investment, high operating cost and poor effect.

The design of a good fountain scheme requires the professional designers of the fountain to fully listen to and absorb the suggestions and opinions of planners, architects, landscape architects and construction units in the place where the fountain is located, and to design a reasonable plan according to the time and place. The pool and water spray shape of the fountain should form a harmonious relationship with the surrounding environment, space, architecture and greening. It is not suitable for a quiet and elegant atmosphere to be a warm and active. Taking the laser color music fountain as an example, foreign countries are generally located in parks, playgrounds and cultural parks of tourist attractions, and have seats for viewing, so that people can stop and enjoy the fountain. But some of our cities are located in the small space, traffic flow, and do not have parking conditions next to the road or traffic around the island center. It is obvious that this choice is unscientific and unreasonable. The fountain is very prone to traffic jams.

In addition, the ratio of water spray height to the diameter of the pool, the level of various water modelling, should be properly grasped. It should give people a natural beauty, environmental beauty artistic conception, and avoid disorderly simple stacking. These should be addressed rationally during programme development.

The water shape of the fountain is realized by the detailed design. The reasonable matching of the machine, pump, pipe, valve and nozzle directly affects the water spray effect. The design of some fountains only pays attention to the technical indicators such as flow rate and working pressure, neglecting the important factor of the flow state effect, and the water modeling effect is poor. For example, the success of the super-high water column is dense; the rupture section and the atomization section are short; the water column diameter and the water spray height ratio are appropriate; the wind resistance is strong, and the water spray effect is straight and majestic. At present, some ultra-high water columns, the water column is short, the rupture section and the atomization section are long. The diameter of the water column is small and thin compared with the water spray height. The wind resistance is poor, and the water column is easily blown and scattered, which is the reason that the relevant parameters are selected unreasonably.  There are similar problems in the combination effect of integral water modeling.  Unreasonable detail design is a poor performance of technical and economic indicators, and needs to be solved in the fountain design stage.

Problems in fountain design

The quality of the fountain equipment affects the use of the fountain. In reality, products of the same type, the same specifications and the same place of origin are often encountered, and their working parameters are different (exceeding allowable error). Some fake and inferior products are of poor quality and short service life, which increases the maintenance workload and management cost of the units using the fountain. It has also damaged the reputations of fountain equipment manufacturers and companies. It is an effective way to improve the quality of the fountain equipment by speeding up the formulation of the product standard of the fountain equipment and providing the operable content of the product inspection and quality supervision to the manufacturers and users.

The fountain is a landscape project that consumes energy. Some ultra-high water columns or large-scale laser color-controlled fountains consume thousands or thousands of kilowatts of power and light. That is to say, the fountain drives thousands of kilowatt hours for two hours a day. For the investment of the fountain project and the maintenance of the future, it is a great expense and needs to be carefully demonstrated and evaluated. Under the premise of ensuring the design effect of the fountain, energy should be saved as much as possible, which should be tailored in the design stage of the fountain scheme.

China is a country that lacks water. Water conservation is a basic national policy. Fountains should promote recycling water. When designing, we should consider reducing the atomization and drifting loss of water spray.  There should be filtering and purifying devices in the circulating water system. Now there are many dry fountains, whose water spraying can easily wash the soil and dirt on the ground into the groundwater pool, and the water quality is easy to be polluted. The water in the pool can be purified and the service cycle of the pool water can be prolonged. The used pool water can be used to water the surrounding lawn and green space, saving water and having the function of environmental protection.

The fountain industry has developed greatly with the development of the city. High technology has been completely applied to fountain design, especially in the music fountain.Those problems in the fountain design, I hope the fountain designers will be more careful in the fountain design process, and more attention to parameter selection, so as to design a perfect fountain.