When we breathe we may not realise the unseen but deadly toxicity of the air around us. While a cloud of gloom sets over the country, with the Air Quality Index worsening with each passing year, messiahs of light work through different parts of India to clear the air. These stories highlight the unconventional solutions, as well as the time and research that goes behind them with new methods that surpass the usual. So that something that we don’t even think about, breathing, isn’t something we worry about any more.
The mapping of sustainable ideas in the domains of cleanWater, cleanAir, cleanEnergy, cleanEarth or Forest documents India's most seminal ideas in building ecological resilience. Sustainability Idea Labs is delighted to showcase these ideas as Administering Partner at the India Pavilion, London Design Biennale 2021. Every project showcased here is the copyright of its author/ firm.
ARCHITECT TEJAS SIDNAL
Upcycling old rubber tyres of vehicles to create useful byproducts! Dont throw your tyre out!
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MATHAROO ASSOCIATES
Introduction of pool of water enables flow of COOL AIR by differential pressure!
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Studio Sangath
A nondemolition strategy yet brand new! A strategy for old building stock to create CLEAN AIR PERCHES!
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Parshva Shah
Gather up the stone dust and get it out of the AIR. A raw material for sculpture!
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ARIJEET RAIKAR DESIGN STUDIO
Using leftover urban spaces to tuck in URBAN GREEN Modules for transit living!
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CADENCE
Creating Green Facades to support ecosystems that CLEAN THE AIR around us!
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DEBASHREE PADH
This incredible stove is SMOKELESS! Imagine its great impact on the AIR in rural India!
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RMA ARCHITECTURE
An underground pipe cooling system for a hot dry climate to have COOL AIR in summer!
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HUNDREDHANDS
A strategy to use a sequence of building sections to deploy natural AIR MOVEMENT !
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GAUTAM BHATIA
An artistic imagination of MINIMIZING footprint and maximizing cleanAIR exposure
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AMITA SINHA, YINI CHEN
A strategy to arrest particulate ash in AIR from a cremation site at River Ganga.
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HUNDRED HANDS
A public space that BREATHES using natural air.
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SPASM DESIGN ARCHITECTS
A novel terracotta cooling screen!
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GAUTAM BHATIA
An artistic vision. When earth is overbuilt, gogreen, growtree vertically!
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GAUTAM BHATIA
A radical idea for living, engaging natural air.
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Russell Collins
A super innovation for a STOVE in the mountains that does not emit smoke! Way to go!
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Manvel Alur
An urban TREE program that recognises its role in creating carbon sinks.
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