Oxygen Machine

Lungs of the Building

Detail: Outside & Inside 

Opposite to Academy of Architecture, I saw something that I found really fascinating.

I related it back to the Oxygen Machine that our students had proposed during the Orientation workshop 2010-11. 

"One of the direct consequences of a grave traffic jam would be increase in the amount of pollution. Students overtly pointed out that there would be need of more fresh air and hence the idea of Oxygen Supplying Machines, which would provide fresh air to the much needed spaces in this situation. The group chose an external facade of the college to suck in fresh air and prepared a large blowing assembly - a contraption which throbbed through specially designed bamboo hinges and covered by a cloth which would blow in fresh air. The Oxygen Machine magnified the experience of breathing in the city."

excerpt from "Orientation Workshop Summary 2010-11"

More ideas. To be elaborated later.