2024-09-29 10:08:04
To provide drinking water to residents who do not have it, Italian architect + has designed a construction that collects moisture from the ambient air.
The warka tree is to the Ethiopian villages what the fountain and plane trees are to our rural ones: a gathering place where the inhabitants wander and chat. With her big broccoli head dress, The fig tree was wasted (in good Latin) can reach 25 meters and extend its firecracker branches on a diameter of 50 meters. It did not take much to inspire the Italian architect Antonio Vittori to name his invention: Warka Tower.
All in shape and light, this curious construction, which one would not expect to see in the heart of a savannah, turns air into drinking water. Its operation is quite simple: around a tall cylinder made of bamboo trellis which can rise up to fifteen meters, a net is wound, the net of which receives the humidity of the ambient air. The droplets of dew, rain or fog beads up to a funnel and a reservoir, placed at the bottom of the structure. “The work of the tower is…
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