Monday, March 3, 2014

Giant bubbles of fresh air can be solution to Chinese pollution

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Record pollution levels recorded in the large cities of China have served to stimulate the creativity of policymakers and architects and designers when it comes to finding innovative solutions to combat or minimise the effects of pollution.

One of these innovative solutions was proposed by a workshop of architects Londoners, the Orproject, who proposed the creation of giant bubbles full of pure air in Beijing. These inflatable bubbles would have parks and botanical gardens that would produce pure air. The bubbles would be built in a microlight structure resembling the wings of a butterfly with veins of leaves.

The system would use a material known as ETFE, the same that was used in the construction of the Olympic Aquatic Center for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. This transparent and malleable plastic could be used to create giant bubbles that then would allow the passage of sunlight at the same time protect the inhabitants of Beijing of high levels of pollution.

Christoph Klemmt, founder of Orproject, believes that this biome can create different microclimates within the same space, referred to in Inhabitat. The heating and cooling of giant bubbles will be made through a heat exchange system and energy requirements will be supplied by solar panels integrated into the structure.

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