Henry Glogau wins Lexus Design Award with Portable Solar Distiller for informal settlements
Danish architecture graduate Henry Glogau has developed a distiller that purifies water using solar energy and can be assembled from cheap, readily available materials.
The Portable Solar Distiller, which won this year's Lexus Design Award, consists of a two-layered plastic tarp that is suspended on top of a simple bamboo support structure
One of these circular canopies, which have a diameter of 2.4 meters, can generate 18 litres of purified water a day.
A render shows the distiller suspended on a bamboo support structure
The designer, a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, hopes that the easily deployable design can help provide clean drinking water for some of the one billion people who are living in informal settlements.
According to Glogau, this is especially important as these people will feel the impacts of climate change most acutely. "With the challenges we will face in the near future, we need resilient and autonomous resource infrastructure for democratised access," he told Dezeen.
Henry Glogau designed the distiller to be easily assembled and transported
The contraption harnesses the same water cycle of evaporation, condensation and precipitation that nature uses to make rain.
In Glogau's design, seawater or polluted drinking water is poured into the bottom layer of the canopy, which is made from heat-absorbent plastic and warmed by the sun throughout the day.
This causes pure water to evaporate while any salt, pathogens or other contamina...
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