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Alexey Umarov

Alexey Umarov

Khabarovsk, RU

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The Hyper Filter Skyscraper

         One of the greatest problems that the world is facing today is that of environmental pollution, increasing with every passing year and causing grave and irreparable damage to the Earth.

         Environmental pollution can be divided into the following types: Local, Regional and Global.

         This process is considered as an evidence of atmosphere recourses finiteness and it shows limits of the natural atmosphere self-regeneration. However sharp increasing pollution has reached the level of self-regeneration inability and even stepped over this border.

         Under nowadays level of pollution harmful substances from air pollution source spread over dozens and hundred kilometers. The term “pollution source” itself means a lot. A whole region and even a country can represent a single pollution source.

By now some important problems of anthropogenic Earth pollution have appeared.

They are as follows:

1. Possible climate changes caused by technogenic warmth, carbon dioxide and volatile solids emission to the atmosphere.

2. The Earth ozone layer damage possibility connected with freons, nitrogen oxides and some other environmental contaminants.

3. Global environment pollution from radioactive material, heavy metals and pesticides shows  harmful impact on the ecology system. 

4. The problem of water pollution from atmosphere precipitation, stream flow,

ground and water transport.

5. Problems of atmospheric transfer and acid rain.

         The Hyper Filter project is designed to solve the regional air pollution problem. Located in big cities between skyscrapers surrounded by busy traffic roads, stations and factories The Hyper Filter “inhales” polluted by CO2, harmful gases air and “exhales” clear concentrated O2. Atmosphere air warmth is expected to sustain The Hyper Filter building in working conditions. The building envelope structure is designed to provide proportional clear air emission to the over-building space. Thr external envelope with long pipe-filters keeps temperature balance of the building. All the released harmful substances are moved on uptake to holders. Then they are divided into reservoirs for future use in construction and chemical industry.

 
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Status: Competition Entry
Additional Credits: The Honorable Mention in The 2014 skyscraper competition by eVolo Magazine.
http://www.evolo.us/competition/hyper-filter-skyscraper/