“气泡”空气净化生态器

继在华沙建造的气泡生物技术游乐场项目大获成功之后，ecoLogicStudio团队这次带来了名为“气泡”的空气净化生态机，它安装在格拉斯哥科学中心前COP26绿区区域内。该项目是ecoLogicStudio与Otrivin®合作完成。 

Following the successful Air Bubble biotechnological playground project built in Warsaw (Poland), ecoLogicStudio presents the Air Bubble air-purifying eco-machine, which has been installed in front of the Glasgow Science Centre within the COP26’s Green Zone area. The project has been developed in partnership with Otrivin®.

“气泡”由99%的空气、水和具有空气净化功能的小球藻培养物制成。这个新的生物数字项目展示了生物技术在建筑环境中的先进整合，以及它们如何创造新一代生活、成长的建筑，将观赏性和高效的生态性相结合。

The eco-machine is made of 99% air, water and living photosynthetic air-purifying Chlorella cultures. This new bio-digital project demonstrates how the advanced integration of biotechnology in the built environment can lead to a new generation of living, growing architectures, where beauty and efficient ecological performance are combined.

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“‘气泡’的诞生，将使观赏性成为衡量生态智能的标准。”

——ecoLogicStudio联合创始人、UCL和UIBK生物数字建筑教授Claudia Pasquero教授声称。

“With the Air Bubble air-purifying eco-machine, beauty becomes a true measure of ecological intelligence”

— says Prof. Claudia Pasquero, ecoLogicStudio co-founder; UCL and UIBK professor of biodigital architecture.

项目鼓励游客，尤其是儿童，与装置直接进行互动，体验微藻类培养物的净化空气的能力，同时置身在不断产生新鲜氧气的气泡中。有机结构被设计的俏皮而又柔软，像一只巨大的带有弹性的水母，能够直接表现其集成生物技术。

The project encourages visitors, and especially children, to directly interact and experience the air cleaning capabilities of micro algae cultures, while immersing themselves into a bubble of freshly metabolized oxygen. The playful softness of the organic structure, akin to a gigantic bouncy jellyfish, is a direct manifestation of the biotechnology it integrates.

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“气泡”空气净化生态器是ecoLogicStudio的第一款气动生物反应器。它包含6,000升水，支持200升活小球藻培养物，每分钟过滤100升受污染的城市空气。空气和水压由仅0.5毫米厚的TPU膜控制，仅占整个结构的5%重量和1%体积。该结构的整体强度是通过其三维细胞组织实现的。为了实现这一结果，制造过程需要将结构形状完全展开成近100个CNC切割的平面部件，然后将这些部件焊接到位，形成一个完整的3D充气电池矩阵。

Air Bubble air-purifying eco-machine is also ecoLogicStudio’s first pneumatic bioreactor. It contains 6.000 liters of water supporting 200 liters of living Chlorella cultures filtering 100 liters of polluted urban air every minute. The air and water pressures are contained by a TPU membrane that is only 0.5mm thick and that only takes up 5% in weight and only 1% in volume of the overall structure. The overall strength of the structure is made possible by its three-dimensional cellular organization. To achieve this result the fabrication process entailed the complete unfolding of the structure shape into almost 100 CNC cut flat parts which were then weld in position to form a fully three-dimensional matrix of inflatable cells.

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这一过程使充气结构的品质升级，成为一个反应灵敏的系统，不仅具有空气净化能力、卓越的风阻和独特的可展开性。覆盖的薄膜还具有令人难以置信的轻盈感，很好地维持了低碳理念，最大限度地减少了与运输、安装和拆卸相关的碳排放。

This process updates the traditional qualities of inflatable structures to create the eco-machine. The result is a responsive system, with air purifying capability, exceptional wind resistance and unique deployability. The incredible lightness of the empty membrane makes it uniquely low in embodied carbon and minimizes emissions associated with transportation, installation and dismantling.

外露的薄膜由一系列传感器实时监测，能够感应空气流动并在气动结构中引起振动。这些传感器激活响应式生长照明阵列，进而支持藻类光合作用，从而提高空气净化率。整个生物数字有机体进化出一种新的共生关系：人们与装置的互动越多，空气就被净化得越干净。

The outdoor membrane is monitored in real-time by an array of accelerometers, sensing the wind and inducing vibrations in the pneumatic structure. These sensors activate a responsive array of growth lighting that in turn support algal photosynthesis thus increasing air purification. The entire bio-digital organism evolves a new kind of symbiosis whereby the more people play the cleaner the air becomes.

结构的建筑形态进一步增强了过滤过程。TPU膜——由ecoLogicStudio于2018年在都柏林展示的PhotoSynthetica城市窗帘系统的演变——控制气泡内的小气候。充气膜的门可促进空气再循环和自然通风。

The filtering process is further enhanced by the architectural morphology of the structure. The TPU membrane – an evolution of the PhotoSynthetica urban curtain system presented in Dublin in 2018 by ecoLogicStudio – controls the microclimate inside the bubble. The inflatable membrane’s doors stimulate air recirculation and natural ventilation.

“气泡”将轻型充气技术与24个光生物反应器（每侧12个）相结合，这些光生物反应器位于充气系统中，以在结构内部创造独特的微气候。恒定的空气循环流会吸收六种核心污染物：细颗粒物PM2.5和PM10、地面臭氧(O3)、二氧化氮(NO2)、二氧化硫(SO2)和一氧化碳(CO)。该项目能够吸收空气中97%的氮和75%的颗粒物。

Air Bubble air-purifying eco-machine combines a lightweight inflatable technology with 24 photobioreactors (12 on each side) that are hosted in the inflatable system to create a unique microclimate inside the structure. A constant air circulation stream absorbs six core pollutants: fine particulate PM2.5 and PM10, ground level Ozone (O3), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) and Carbon Monoxide (CO). The project is capable of absorbing 97% of the nitrogen and 75% of the particulate matter in the air.

Air Bubble 空气净化生态机是一个很好的现实案例，它展示了未来30年后的文明中将如何清洁污染、生产能源、种植食物和建造建筑——从现在做起。

Air Bubble air-purifying eco-machine is a tangible vision of how a net zero civilisation can clean its pollution, produce its energy, grow its food and construct its buildings in the next 30 years, starting now.

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PROJECT NAME: Air Bubble air-purifying eco-machine
ARCHITECT: ecoLogicStudio (Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto)
PROJECT TEAM: Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto with Greta Ballschuh, Sheng Cao, Korbinian Enzinger, Claudia Handler, Riccardo Mangili, Alessandra Poletto, Eirini Tsomokou
ACADEMIC PARTNERS: Synthetic Landscape Lab IOUD Innsbruck University, Urban Morphogenesis Lab BPRO The Bartlett UCL
CLIENT: Otrivin®
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: YIP London
BIOLOGICAL MEDIUM: Algomed
PNEUMATIC STRUCTURE: Pneumocell
SENSORY SYSTEM: Puckett Research, Almondo
PHOTOGRAPHER: ©NAARO