"Fresh Air" Technologies: Rethinking the Role of Plants in Architecture
Brought to you by The Sustainability Committee
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Price: $10 AIA/Engineers $20 Non Members $5 Associate Members
Credits: 1 AIA HSW PDH
Platform: Zoom Webinar
Schedule:
12:00PM - 12:10PM Intro with Dahl Winters about the Cyan Project
12:10- 12:45PM Presentation with Professor Ahu Aydogan about the Breathe Project
12:45-1:00PM Panel/ Q+A
Description:
Do you know the quality of air you are breathing? There is a high chance the air is filled with toxins. This innovative webinar will challenge you to think about our air intake, and what we, as professionals, have the ability to do about it. You will learn about the various toxins in our air and different plant media techniques that capture and filter out these toxins. You will learn about a research-driven air-purifying system, constituting plant-based air-remediation strategies, as a model for a self-regenerating solution that can be integrated into the HVAC systems of buildings to improve indoor quality and reduce energy consumption. You will also learn how to make your own small-scale DIY direct air carbon capture (DACC) machine, and be inspired by the possibilities of advancing negative emissions technologies, carbon dioxide removal, and direct air carbon capture (DACC) systems as real-tangible ways to combat climate change.
Come join us to learn more from these clean-air experts’ evidence-based research projects- projects that lead us into the future of clean air and regenerative energy. And leave with the ability to rethink the air qualities in your projects, develop knowledge in innovative air quality methods, and use the provided references and references if you want to take this research further.
Start building your DACC machine in advance, and prepare all your questions to be answered by the experts! Download your DACC Machine instructions before the event here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16sjTnoxbUwm7uPMt_qq-JlszIcraGtzUP1lxb_sJ7nY/edit
Guest Presenter:
Dahl Winters, Co-Founder of DeepScience Ltd and Member of the OpenAir Collective, leading the Cyan Mission (a small-scale direct air carbon capture (DACC) machine)
Presenter:
Ahu Aydogan, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, leading the Breathe System and Research (a botanical-based air-purifying system)