Shading filters

Shading filters are functional textile extensions for city buildings that create shade from the sun while cleaning air pollutants.

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We are taking inspiration from textile shelters that naturally provide shading into Indian streets, and want to combine it with pollutants removing fabrics, that act as pollution filters for the air. The textile filters have their cleaning capacities expanded with their surface. Meanwhile, covering narrow streets, shop forefronts, terraces and blinds with fabric shelters help in significantly reducing the sun heat; it’s a practice very well known and easy to observe in India. By creating shading filters into the city, we would top-up this useful practice with the benefit of removing air pollutants. Passive cooling is a natural way to prevent heat from entering a building or removing it by adapting the building design. We want to adapt into existing constructions; one specificity of New-Delhi’s architecture is the flat terraces. Covering them with a removable textile would prevent the entry of the heat daytime, and radiative cooling by removing it at night. The structures, into which we would stretch the textile, would be made from bamboo, a locally available material and traditionally used for scaffoldings. We aimed to create a range of shading systems that could be implemented outdoor, on both public and private spaces. In order to facilitate the adaptation of the design to different buildings, we will create parametric or modular designs. To sum up, our proposal is to create a system, to implement this idea from manufacturing to maintenance; also, we would build a platform

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