The study of ceramic artificial reef structure design concept / Nur Syasya Nadiah Mohd Rozali

Coral reefs are among world’s most biodiverse yet most threatened ecosystems, important to both marine species and humans. These ecosystems have been dwindling due to natural and human activity. Researchers make several observations to create a potential artificial coral to help and protect the remaining coral. This, would probably be excluded from some procedures and materials, as well as being constrained by time and experience. While modern technology has been introduced to help these issues, the capabilities for designing artificial coral are insufficient. This paper aims to identify the possible project that are safe for the ecosystem. The researcher proposes that the existing artificial coral can be expanded with material studies that are far economical, using a different concept form that is more convenient, smaller in size and based on the Honeycomb concept. The research findings will be conducted by agencies to identified the materials used. Meanwhile the design will be collected from student’s sample group as design brief. Since the researcher have experience from a ceramic background, the project will be study more on ceramic material. It is hope that the research would aid in the improvement of existing coral reefs to be held in the artificial project.