Providing potable water for annual hurricanes and typhoons
project: class project redesign || role: class assignment || duration: three months
HOW CAN WE PROVIDE A FILTRATION DEVICE THAT CAN BE USED BOTH INDOORS AND OUTDOORS?
Filtr is a ceramic filtration system for when water supply is contaminated during a hurricane or typhoon.
This was originally a project to design a potable water filter in response to an assigned natural disaster. From researching hurricanes, the main takeaway was having a convenient filtration device that could be used indoors, since a lot of the times hurricanes affect people sheltering inside their homes.
After exploration of different water pumps and filtration systems, an extended screwing mechanism was implemented to provide perceivable interaction to the user filtering the water, as well as a more productive extraction of water units per force.
Ceramic filtering was chosen for the particular reason that it has the ability to filter out microbes and contamination cheaply and effectively.
The external tubing uses negative pressure to suck in the water through a check (one-way) valve, and then filter out the bottom.
The filtration unit can be fitted over any container with an opening of 3 inches (or the "wide mouth" standard).
Since hurricanes and typhoons can be seasonal, Filtr doesn't have to be stored away whenever there isn't a natural distaster going on and can also be used year-round as a regular filter for tap water.
