Name: Richard Etadafe Ogodeton

 

Project Name: DIY retrofit Water Efficient saving Shower (Use design to help people understand

the value of water)

 

Project Info: Every minute of every day, in millions of homes around United Kingdom quality fresh drinking water is lost to the drain due to inefficient showers. Water is wasted as we wait for our shower to warm up and when we adjust the taps whilst being splashed by cold water.

Behavioural change has recently become a necessity in many southern cities in the UK (London and Brighton) as municipal water supplies come dangerously close to being exhausted by lasting droughts. Broad calls have been made to severely reduce water usage in metropolitan cities around the world. This is the type of need that should prompt the creation of greener devices.

Market research indicated there was no simple elegant solution to this complex problem. Once I had a full understanding of the problem I set myself to the task of inventing the Bypass

Shower system. The Bypass was to eliminate all of the above problems and fill the market gap. It was to be DIY, retrofit able, and self-powered.

After long research going back to my A-levels I storm into Daniel Bernoulli’s theory of gases and fluids, I realised I could capture the cold water before it escaped the shower head and then mix the collected water back into the shower stream by venturi during the course of the shower. This would also increase the shower outflow and when the shower was finished the collected water would all be utilised.

 

Bio: ‘’I can feel satisfied only when I solve problems or create new ideas. “. I am a level 3 BSc Experienced product designer with the design, communication and manufacturing skills required to successfully develop and improve products for the consumer product and computing device marketplaces. As a young boy I would follow Dad around his office hoping for the chance to dissect some helpless piece of equipment. My father’s office looked like a mad scientist’s laboratory; He also had a junk box that was full of disassembled bits and pieces of apparatus, magnets and old clocks.

That was sort of my playground. That environment definitely helped me to develop the skills I have today. I would describe my style of design as simple and clean. I like my final designs to not be overcomplicated and wish users to instinctively understand and be able to use my products. I have become increasingly interested in the ‘Without Thought’ design philosophy of Naoto Fukusawa and will be trying to incorporate this in future projects.