Everyone’s summer is estimated to be inseparable from an air conditioner.
Whether it’s at home or in the office, the air conditioner is all day long. Its electricity bill is expensive, and it is not environmentally friendly at all.
So industrial designer Maxime Louis-courcier proposed a set of Sustainable household appliances program, “woven air conditioning”, The room can be cooled without power.
This “air conditioner”, the outer layer of yarn is woven with high thermal composite yarn, and between the lines, a root is placed by phase change material (PCM) made of pipes, and Phase change materials have always been considered the best green material for energy conservation and environmental protection in the future.
The phase change material used in these pipes is a bio-based fatty acid that automatically melts at a certain temperature and absorbs heat when it melts.
Therefore, when the high thermal conductive composite yarn is in contact with the woven air conditioner made of PCM, the woven air conditioner will automatically absorb heat. When the indoor temperature reaches a certain high temperature, the PCM will melt and become transparent. When the air temperature is lowered, the original Blue will return again.
So you can see the approximate state of the room temperature instantly through the change in color.
A new home made from a new material in a sustainable program is a “Clay Clay Air Humidifier” , it can assist in weaving air conditioners and strengthening the cool and cold air in the room.
In order to make a paper clay air humidifier, the designer also invited pottery artists and fluid mechanics engineers to participate in it. Based on natural clay materials, they combined with physical knowledge to extrude it into a paper composite porous. Clay, this new material not only has improved water absorption properties, but also does not decompose in water.
When you pour water into the base of the humidifier, the paper clay will quickly absorb the water from the base. The filter coating on the surface will hide the scale. The clean moisture will evaporate through the pores and make the room moist.
It also has a wave design on the surface to maximize surface area and make moisture evaporation more efficient.
The paper clay air humidifier not only does not need to be plugged in, but also becomes more durable than the classic humidifier.
With a woven air conditioner, there will be no cold air blowing out of the room, and the moist and cool air will fill it.
In addition, the main color of the woven air conditioner and humidifier is white, so it can be integrated with the white wall of most rooms. The woven air conditioner can be hung on the wall, and the paper clay air humidifier can be placed in the corner.
At the beginning of the design, the inspiration for the engineer to make the woven air conditioner came from the ancient tapestry process. This time, I hope to use the new technology to make the household products play a more functional and decorative effect.
According to maxime louis-courcier introduction, the paper clay air humidifier adds about 200g of water and can be 25 square meters per hour. The large room is humidified; each module of the woven air conditioner is 10 kg in weight, and the three woven air-conditioning modules are suspended and suspended to cool one bedroom.
This project is mainly about the thermal conductivity of new materials, heat transfer, and how the materials react when temperature changes. Through these studies, designers hope to make phase change materials truly applied to people’s lives.
Now, these materials have been partially integrated into the structural insulation panels of buildings, and they can also be used in our daily lives through air conditioners and humidifiers.A step closer.