Smog Free Project（雾霾净化项目）丨中国北京丨Daan Roosegarde及团队

The Smog Free project: the world’s largest air-cleaning tower opens in Beijing

Daan Roosegarde inaugurates the Smog Free Project, an air-purifying tower envisioning a cleaner urban future. Starting from Beijing.

The Smog Free Project – Photo by Derrick Wang. Courtesy of Studio Roosegarde.

Beijing,China

– The

Smog Free Project

by Dutch artist and innovator

Daan Roosegaarde

and a team of designers and experts debuted at

Beijing Design Week

as the largest air purifier in the world. The project consists in a 7 meters-high tower able to clean 30.000m3 per hour via patented ozone-free ion technology.

Smog Free Project is about the dream of clean air and the beginning of a journey towards smarter cities”.

Says

Daan Roosegarde

to ArchiPanic. The tower captures and collects

more than 75% of the

PM2.5 and PM10

airborne smog particles. Making

use of a small amount of green electricity,

it releases clean air with a 360-degree coverage.

Supported by the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection, the installation was presented during Beijing Design Week at 751 D.Park and will be touring the globe in the next months.

The Project was inspired by numerous travels in China and particularly by a visit to Beijing in 2013 when I couldn’t look up out of the hotel room and children were kept indoors due to the severity

of the smog

Photo by Lard Buurman.

More than 80% of people in urban areas are exposed to air quality levels that exceed

World Health Organization limits

. The project

serves also as an inspiration for citizens, governments, NGOs, pro-bicycle campaigns and the clean-tech industry to become part of the solution, working together to make cities smog free.

Photo by Chas Pope.

The Smog Free Project is a part of Roosegaarde’s larger oeuvre

Landscapes of the Future

which connects people, technology and space to improve the quality of daily life in urban environments.

Photo by Derrick Wang.

Along with the tower, Daan Roosegarde designed also a Smog Free Jewellery collection comprising rings and cufflinks made from compressed smog particles collected from the Smog Free Tower. “

By sharing a Smog Free Ring, you donate 1000m3 of clean air

” says Daan Roosegarde.

“We warmly welcome Smog Free Project to Beijing. This project is key in our agenda to promote clean air as a “green lifestyle” among Chinese citizens”.

Says Liu Guozheng, Secretary-General of The China Forum of Environmental Journalists

Photo by Derrick Wang.

Photo by Derrick Wang.