When dealing with the question of fountain design, quite often a few simple and efficient initial recommendations are required, as are replies to questions that are more frequently asked than you might imagine. Therefore, both this and future posts on this blog are going to set out a series of considerations to be taken into account when tackling the design of an architectural fountain. As altogether there are quite a number of points to be considered, this post focuses on the technological and construction parts as well as analyzing architectural fountains with nozzles.

The solid water jet nozzle was the first cone nozzle to appear in history and at first was the simple pipe-end that we mentioned in the first article of this blog, through which water was discharged at a certain pressure (Fig. 10). Depending on the tilt of the pipe-end, the water jet rises vertically or forms a parabola.

We finished the second installment of this section by discussing water treatment in water feature fountains and now we resume this blog talking about water drainage in architectural water fountains.

7.-Draining water from architectural fountains. In most cases, a water drainage system comprises the overflow, bottom drain plug, wall penetrations and a drain network:Read More

More and more frequently, architectural fountains and interactive play fountains are designed in such a way that their regular operating mode includes changing water displays,  which may or may not follow musical sequences, accompany image projections, etc. There are fewer and fewer static water fountains in which the pump unit works at full capacity from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., with the lighting operating from 8 to 10 p.m., for example.