3D 打印厕所助力全球卫生危机解决

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Eriam Sheikh, 7 year old comes out after using the toilet on stilts or floating toilet built over a drain passing by Rafiq Nagar in Mumbai 

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UN Water

World Toilet Day

 (

WTD

) is an official 

United Nations

international observance day

 on 19 November that inspires action to tackle the global 

sanitation

 crisis. This year the theme focuses on the importance of "Sustainable sanitation and climate change"

SPARK has designed and is working with a high profile Indian University to deliver an easily transportable 3d printed toilet.

The proposal aims to highlight the urgency of eliminating o

pen defecation as well as the positive benefit of using a natural waste 

product to create “free” energy for remote communities.

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The application of SPARK's“T

he

 Big 

A

rse 

T

oilet” in remote locations 

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World Toilet Day celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 4.2 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. It is about taking action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and 

achie

ve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for al

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SPARK's“T

he

 Big 

A

rse 

T

oilet"  

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SPARK’s “Big Arse Toilet” given its form can provide sanitation and power to communities that lack these basic utilities. The cost effective toilet modules will be printed from a mixture of processed bamboo fibre, lightweight concrete and gum resin.

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SPARK's “T

he

 Big 

A

rse 

Toilet" secti

on 

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Sustainable power generation

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Water recycling

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The toilet modules sit on and are secured to a buried 3d printed reinterpretation of a traditional biogas dome that uses human, animal and vegetable waste to generate and store bio-gas.

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3d

mod

ule

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Drone transportation

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SPARK's "Bi

g Arse Toilet" structural analysis

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The printed monocoque shell of the toilet comes complete with toilet bowl and basin printed as part of the homogenous surface of the toilet cubicle. The exterior of the shell can be rendered or finished with a variety of materials appropriate to local context and environment.

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SPARK's "Bi

g Arse Toilet" 

placed in the community

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The biogas dome has been sized to function for 10 years, generating enough electricity to power a small community of 8 dwellings.

SPARK partner Stephen Pimbley said:

“ 

SPARK’s self-funded The Big Arse Toilet has been developed to highlight the fact that not 

enough is being done to provide solutions for vulnerable individuals that are worst affected by 

lack of access to the level sanitation most take for granted.

Our proposal could help prevent disease and assistin community development by lifting social barriers faced particularly women in rural communities, often meaning serious consequences for their health, perpetuating the disproportionate levels of disease associated with poverty and open defecation.

”

Did you know?

Over half of the global population or 4.2 billion people lack safe sanitation.

40%– or three billion people – of the global population live without basic handwashing facilities with soap and water available at home.

Globally, 80% of the wastewater generated by society flows back into the ecosystem without being treated or reused.

SPARK 

RESEARCH

We like to think of ourselves as modest unassuming individuals doing a professional job. It 

bothers us that our profession / industry is in a sort of crisis in that it has lost its social purpose. The architect more often than not is a tool of the free market, we produce investment product for developers, the architect confined to a role that is image and money focused, little to do with building societies.

This is why SPARK tries to achieve a balance in our output, committing each year time and 

resource to the development of “research projects” that are focused on the social and environmental issues faced by the city and the community.

SPARK is very proud to have won 2 prestigious WAF (World Architecture Festival) awards and was 

shortlisted fo

r the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Bronze medal for its research work.

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