Hyper Filter for Megacity

As we have already mentioned, one of the basic conditions of the project participation in the eVolo Skyscraper Competition was the environmental friendliness of the presented model. Therefore, is not surprising that the idea of Russian architect Alexey Umarov to create Hyper Filter Skyscraper was confered by jury with Honorable Mention award.

This extraordinary Hyper Filter Skyscraper was designed to inhale carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases and exhale oxygen. This biomimetic structure uses long pipe filters in the air purification process and stores harmful substances for use in the chemical industry. 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 recourse1 finiteness and it shows limits of the natural atmosphere self-regenerating. However sharp increasing pollution has reached the level of self-regeneration inability and even stepped over this border.

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