Emphamaze Competition Project

Student Idea International Competition Project
Oslo / NORWAY - 2020
Project Team: Osman ÇAPUTCU, Ecem DOĞAN


EMPHAMAZE

Plastic pollution is increasing day by day but people don’t have awareness. Especially plastic bags are filling oceans and, lots of animals dying however we are not caring, we never think them! Because we don't know what their live. We have to caring and changing. Changing starts with caring and caring starts with knowing. We have to know what their live and do EMPATHY.

"Emphamaze" is a basic, temporary modular platform and it was designed applicable everywhere of the world.It has only 7 type of material and all of them are recycling.It finish its mission and dissappear. It works above and under of water. While person experience the Emphamaze's above, its underwater tanks leach microplastics under the water. Because of modular system, only "r" factor change. According to plastic waste requirements "r", gets a number. Then platform can set up quicly and start mission. Emphamaze's mission time is varies. When the underwater tanks are filled, mission finish and the platform can be removed and its materials recycled.

First Step: MAZE – “DO EMPATHY”

Person enter a large coridor but then maze’s coridors shrink, start to hear some annoying noice from animals. (crying, screaming, etc). Shrinking corridors express to sea animals life area and affect to person’s psychlogy. End of the maze, person reach the pool.

Second Step: POOL with a BALOON INSTULATION – “FACE TO FACTS”

Pool has a specific structure for awareness. It contains some symbolic fishes with light. Above of the pool, located ice sculptures. Ices contains plastic bags. When sculptures are started to melt, melting ice fill the pool. With water pressure, air rise and start to swell baloon.Also fishes are alive at the moment.
When sculptures finished to melt, plastic bags start to fill the pool. Water pressure decrease and air doesn’t reach the baloon. Fish lights start the shut off one by one. (for dying effect). End of the process, pool is a cesspool and fish isn't alive.Because of plastics and you. That’s the facts!

Third Step: MIRACLE – “BE AWARE and PROTECT!”

When person reach this part with lots of confusions, sees the sea’s miracle. Noice of the waves, feeling of wind. Throw plastics to sea without thinking, musn’t be easy. Because it wasn't easy to reach sea until come this step. What are you doing to your miracle? Think! Know! Be aware and protect it.
Person leaves from platform with thinking to what doings until now. Because now, we know, care, we can change and success.

Emphamaze’s mission finish for above of the water.