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Posted by MartinaCrosta - Last updated on 20-04-2015

The idea is to exploit the weight of water, addable on site, to hold up the framework: that will reduce hugely the environmental impact both for production and distribution of the product (otherwise solid and heavy). The framework is also dematerialized, so it just needs two specular tubes, and there is no heavy support for the boards (four A1 boards each), that are held up by wires.

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Comments

  1. Ursula T. Ursula T.

    Hi team, thanks for the interesting concept. can you reconsider using the material PVC? recycled or not it is highly toxic and should be avoided. thanks

    1. MartinaCrosta MartinaCrosta

      Goodmorning and thanks for you reply. Even if PVC is not toxic itself, but is the addition of low density phthalates that makes it toxic, we want to make sure that our project is environmentally safe 100%. So we decided to follow this advice and replace PVC material with PET, as common and cheap, but not toxic and, also, easier to recycle. We could also use a bioplastic such as PHB (similar to PP and water resistant), but we are not sure about the durability of this material, so we don't know about the influences on our project's life cycle.