Life Guide Will Guide You to The Emergency Exit and Function As A Flotation Device

During a water disaster, like a capsizing boat, there is a very short window of time to escape. As water enters the boat, power is disrupted making it very difficult to find your way to the nearest emergency exit, often resulting in death. This product, called Life Guide, is a quarter-circle shaped device that can be attached to 3 others to form a full circle. It can be stored on the vessel wall as an alternate light source. In the event of an emergency, red LED lights willflash to warn passengers and facilitate finding the device. Passengers can use the Life Guide as a flashlight. A green laser will project an arrow onto the floor, pointing in the direction of the nearest exit. RFID signals connect each device to the nearest emergency exit. As passengers exit the vessel, they can pull a ring on the top that will inflate a flotation device.

Designer : Huang-yu Chen

Life Guide Will Guide You to The Emergency Exit and Function As A Flotation Device is originally posted on Tuvie

Hand Tree : Wearable Air Purifier to Filter Your Own Clean Air

Hand Tree is one of gadget series of Tree concept, it’s a proposed solution to deal with our polluted air. This gadget is your personal air purifier that you can literally carry anywhere with you by wearing it on your wrist. The rapid growth and development of cities cause the same level of rapid pollution in our planet, some people have difficulty breathing because of that. This designer sees the necessary action to develop a personal device which is light and compact to clean the air around us. It was based on the same principle as plants that absorb polluted air and emit purified one to create their own atmosphere. Imagine if everyone in this planet wore that device, we would all breathe easier.

Designer : Alexandr Kostin

This concept is just one part of other appealing wearable accessories; this technology can be incorporated in a series of pendants, belts, bracelets, and many more. There are 2 modes in this system: automatic and manual. When user switches to automatic mode, Hand Tree would constantly monitor its environment and it will automatically activate the purification process once it detects high level of polluted air.

Hand Tree kit comes with charging kit, user can charge the battery of this device wirelessly thanks to the technology of Qi. The body material is made from eco plastic Biograde and meets all federal health standards. The color changes in the body indicates the pollution level, the battery power is displayed on the screen and menu. User can configure how this device works from the menu, simple and easy to understand.

Hand Tree : Wearable Air Purifier to Filter Your Own Clean Air is originally posted on Tuvie

Wind Vault House by Wallflower Architecture + Design

Wallflower Architecture + Design have designed the Wind Vault House in Singapore.

Description

As the brief was substantial, the overall form of the house needed to be pushed to the envelope limits. Naturally, there are also other considerations; the context and proximity of neighbouring homes, the daily sun path and the prevailing winds. Conceptually, the house is a raised reinforced concrete tube whose open ends are oriented in a general north-south direction. On this site, the prevailing breezes also blow in from the south, from the direction of the nearby coast line. In practice, all rooms have walls that side either east or west, and front north and south. The tubular structure resists east west heat gain thanks to the solid mass of the reinforced concrete but encourages passive cooling through the open north south axis. The north and south facades are treated with timber screens and their contribution is multifold. They are privacy filters for the bedrooms and are the first layer of glare and solar heat reduction to the spaces behind. The timber fins of the screen can also be angled so as to catch a breeze or to increase privacy as and when needed.

Family gatherings are a daily occurrence, and large celebratory functions also feature regularly for the client. The first storey is designed to be visually expansive and uncluttered, and encourages the intermingling of space, whether one moves through the garden, living or dining. The perceived spatial boundary is not architecturally delineated in a traditional sense, but by a soldier-line of narrow polyalthia trees along the boundaries of the site. However, architecturally, the trees provide a level of purpose no man-made wall is able to. It shields the house from neighbouring windows but its narrow footprint still allows sun to reach the grass, while freeing up space on the lawn for play and parties. What may not seem so obvious though is that the tines of polyalthias are literally evaporative fingers, combing the air of some of its heat each time the wind blows. The swimming pool is placed centrally between garden and living both as a focal centre and also as a central evaporative cooling surface.

Architect: Wallflower Architecture + Design

Photographer: Jeremy San