Blending the visual and the utilitarian: Few of the artistic projects designed to save the environment

Smog Free Tower
Standing at 23 feet, the tower is able to purify over a million cubic feet of air per hour, and runs on renewable wind energy. It collects two types of pollutants, PM2.5 and PM10. This particle matter is a mixture of liquids and solids that come together to form droplets that float in the air. These are the main cause for smog. The Smog Free Tower is able to catch 75% of these. To make things more interesting, the tower is able to compress these particles and create jewelry from it. Roughly 35,000 cubic feet of filtered air is needed to produce one ring that can be then purchased by passersby.

The Spiraling Treetop Walkway

Designed by EFFEKT architecture studio, this 130-ft-tall structure in Denmark is an observation tower that will allow its visitors to observe a forest with a 3600 view that extends all the way out to sea. The reason behind its construction is to bring people back in contact with nature.

The Clear Orb

It is a conceptual design presented at the 2016 Land Art Generator Initiative Competition, with the purpose of aiding California with an annual influx of about 5,00,000 gallons of fresh water. Known as the Contemplation Walkway, the 1,000-foot-long path to the Orb gradually descends to the point where one would be below sea level. The sphere is 130 ft in diameter, and with the help of solar contractors located on top, it’s able to pump seawater inside. Once there, it evaporates and condenses, thus turning into drinkable water.

The Exhale Chandelier

This chandelier not only lights up the room but also cleans up the air by absorbing CO2 and releasing oxygen. It is filled with algae, hence it is green in colour. It has a handmade metal frame and supports 70 different-sized leaf modules. With it, designer Julian Melchiorri tried to mimic the symbiotic relationship found in nature, where one being’s waste is something else’s valuable resource. In this case, these algae offer us their exhaled oxygen in exchange for our exhaled CO2.

Warka Water

It is the simple idea of two Italian designers to bring fresh water to parts of the world that are suffering from a lack of it. It works by making use of condensation. Less than 30 ft in height, this bamboo tower is lined with a special polyethylene fabric that’s capable of trapping water droplets straight from the atmosphere, and then funneling it into a container at the bottom. Each tower is capable of generating roughly 26 gallons of water per day. With several of these towers, a small village would be able to produce all its water needs.

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