Global warming has created the ride of sea tide, creating floods and flash floods that could destroy any object along their way. Most famous cities around the world lie in close proximity to a huge water body, ie: New York, Singapore, Dubal. Most the cities in the world are located in geomorphic low-lying areas and are prone to flash floods or floods,
The destruction of a flood/ flash flood can be very drastic and that is why there is a need to prevent all the floods by making full use of the existing barriers. This multi-purpose bollard barrier is designed and built in a way that can be use to prevent damage from flash floods as well as blocking up the area for traditional events like Flower Parade, Chingay to cordon the traffic and effectively control the crowd by activating an automated censor with electronics and mechanism.
Bollard X Sealing Door
Industrial design is not about reinventing the wheel and this led to understanding what is the widely used street design along coastal areas. Conceptualised from add-on design from the existing bollards, AquaDefender aims to protect flash floods or crowd control when there is a need to.
Picture 01 shows the bollard seamlessly designed in a way that it is part of the ground plate. The top of the bollard on picture 02 features LED lights to indicate the corner of the road to the vehicles and a handle to manually lift the bollard. The middle of the bollards body has reflective strip and the storage of the mechanism to rise and decrease into the ground. Whenever a flash flood has been detected the space between two bollards would be join with the sealing door as shown in picture 04.
Usage Map
The amount of steps AquaDefender has to get to the final deployment has to be well thought of.
Detailed Section View
Modes of Control
AquaDefender can either be totally free and unobstructive or protective in a split minute. That thought of deployment has been always been paramount to the whole design, hence the design is aimed to be powered autonomous by the Bureau of Meteorology.
