World’s Biggest Giant Smog Cleaning Tower
A Roosegaarde Dream Come True
The Smog Free Project is an innovative and inventive campaign designed to clean polluted air. Daan Roosegaarde is the brains behind this project with a mission to decrease air pollution and the hope of creating a future filled with clean air. This is an amazing invention that is drastically needed in urban areas where smog congestion is high.
The Smog Free Tower can be installed in public areas with ease. The combined effort of the government, schools, and industries, can help cities be smog-free. The Smog Free campaign was launched and well-received in China, South Korea, Poland, Mexico, and the Netherlands.
The Evolution of the Name
Roosegaarde’s mantra ‘Schoonheid’ is a Dutch word that has two meanings, ‘beauty’ and ‘clean’, as in clean breathing air and even clean energy through creativity. Roosegaarde believed in these are elemental essentials of daily life.
Daan has won several achievements and titles under his belt including the winner of Successful Design Award China, Grand Award for Sustainability, Ethics Ethical Award, BUILD Architecture Awards 2020, Design That Educates Award, Europe 40 Under 40 Awards, Gold Award Design For Asia, German Design Award Excellent Product Design, and the German Design Award.
The Roosegaarde Smog Free Tower Structure
The Smog Free Tower is a long-term solution for clean air in which Daan Roosegaarde and his crew of specialists have developed the world’s foremost smog vacuum cleaner. The 7-meter-tall Smog Free Tower utilizes patented positive ionization technology to construct smog-free air in general spaces, allowing individuals to breathe in fresh and clean air for free.
It is fitted with environment-sustainable technology. The tower cleans 30,000 m3 every hour and consumes green electricity. The tower provides a local key for clean air such as in playgrounds, parks, etc. The function of the smog-free tower has been certified by the Eindhoven University of Technology.
About Roosegaarde
Studio Roosegaarde can be found in a one-time glass factory in Rotterdam harbor well inside the Netherlands. The spot is also called the Dream Factory. This is where genius concepts come to life. The Studio itself has loads of experience in public area commissions. They have installed such commissions in places like Paris, Beijing, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, and Stockholm.
The studio is also responsible for multiple collaborations on social innovation projects with universities, investors, and partnerships. BMW and NASA are a few such examples. Other places Studio Roosegaarde has exhibited were in Dubai, Amsterdam, Design Museum London, Eijks Museum, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo Google Zeitgeist, Musee Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, and the Victorian Albert Museum.
Other Roosegaarde Projects
Smog Eating Billboard was established at UDEM University in Mexico with Daan Roosegaarde and students. It offered clean air for 104,000 people per day. The involvement of Professor: Daan Roosegaarde with an assistant professor: Ricardo Contreras Marcos and students like Ana María Peñúñuri García, Frida Leal Parra, Ana Cecilia Álvarez Moreno, Karen Savinneh Tellez Castillo. Daan Roosegaarde is a Dutch artist and innovator.
He and his team unite people and technology in social campaign installations that improve daily life in urban backgrounds, Illuminate the imagination, and at the same time rebel against the climate crisis. The dream is to live in an environment with clean water, clean air, clean surroundings, and clean energy.
Roosegaarde’s Celebrated Work
- Smog Free Project (The world’s first air purifier that turns smog into jewelry)
- Waterlight (A virtual flood demonstrating the might of water),
- Smart Highways (Roads that change as per the day and glow in the dark)
- Seeing Stars & Organic Base Fireworks Called Spark
- By Switching The City Lights Off To Bring The Starts To Visibility
- Space Waste Lab (Upcycling and visualizing space waste)
- Urban Sun (Sanitisation and cleaning of public spaces for Coronavirus)
Rosengaarde states, “We first have to imagine a better future, and only then can we create it. People won’t change because of numbers. But if we can trigger curiosity for a better world, that’s how to activate people. I don’t believe in utopia, but in protopia; improving the world around us step by step.”
Roosegaarde has currently placed his eyes on a new project with a bicycle that purifies the air as it tours through the city. The bicycle inhales the dirty polluted air and pushes clean air into the atmosphere around the cyclist. Follow us to know more.
“True beauty is not a Louis Vuitton bag or a Ferrari, but clean air and clean energy.”
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