The Living Chandelier Designed by Julian Melchiorri Absorbs CO2
Everyone and every building need light for living and visions. We all surely know how we need light in our whole life. However, what if that lighting fixture is now designed to have the ability to clean your air as well?
This living chandelier mimics were designed to improve the overall quality of the air simply by releasing oxygen after absorbing carbon dioxide (or we all know simply as CO2). The Exhale Chandelier is a product of Julian Melchiorri (the very first Engineer in Residence of Victoria and Albert Museum) and it is based on Silk Leaf – the previous project of Julian Melchiorri, including the stabilizing chloroplasts in silk protein. Interestingly, the designer has spent years working with a lot of living organisms to create and run artificial leaves in projects including this one; and Melchiorri is a biochemical technology researcher as well.
This embodiment includes synthesizing silk leaves into seventy green petals that contain algae in a lot of different sizes. The algae-integrated leaves, which are lit by LED lights, can release the oxygen and absorb CO2 in the atmosphere. This will be able to turn the lighting fixture into a living chandelier which can give the air a natural cleaning effect. The living chandelier is not only a wonderful eco-product that brings about many benefits for the whole environment, but its sophisticated design would be able to create a beautiful lighting case for every atmosphere around.
This embodiment includes synthesizing silk leaves into seventy green petals that contain algae in a lot of different sizes. The algae-integrated leaves, which are lit by LED lights, can release the oxygen and absorb CO2 in the atmosphere. This will be able to turn the lighting fixture into a living chandelier which can give the air a natural cleaning effect. The living chandelier is not only a wonderful eco-product that brings about many benefits for the whole environment, but its sophisticated design would be able to create a beautiful lighting case for every atmosphere around.
Although the Exhale Chandelier is now a prototype, the designer still believes that he will be able to integrate his photo-reactive cell technology into buildings in the future, bringing them out of harmful substances and emissions in the air around.
Melchiorri can imagine that this technology could be widely used in the future in ventilation systems, interior surfaces, and even space exploration. It is kind of similar to a simple air-purifying houseplant, except that it has integrated into a brilliantly-made light piece.
The Living Chandelier Designed by Julian Melchiorri Absorbs CO2
