The building 'inhaled' smoke in Mexico
A Mexico City hospital is equipped with a unique architecture capable of reacting to dust and smoke, turning them into small forms and safer for the environment.
A Mexico City hospital is equipped with a unique architecture capable of reacting to dust and smoke, turning them into small forms and safer for the environment.
Elegant Establishments, based in Berlin (Germany), designed the main face of the Torre de Especialidades building of Dr. Manuel Gea Gonzalez General Hospital.
Facade of a specially structured building in Mexico City - (Photo: Elegant Embellishments)
Designers have created a surface using tile slabs called Prosolve370e , containing titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ), the main ingredient in sunscreen.
When sunlight hits these tiles, smoke reacts with the material. That process will cause polluted air to dissolve into less toxic forms, such as calcium nitrate (Ca (NO 3 ) 2), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and water, according to FastCoExist.
They are arranged so that the reaction process takes place across the surface of an area of 2,500m 2 of the building facade.
According to CNN, the design is inspired by nature, similar to the structure of corals.
Designers said the arrangement could neutralize the negative effect of about 1,000 smoke-bikes running across the building every day.
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