Bel-Air indoor filtration system uses plant-power
Designer Mathieu Lehanneur's Bel-Air (together with the American scientist David Edwards (Harvard University) is an indoor air filtration system that purifies the air. The system uses living plants to do the needful. The purifier is currently on show at the Laboratoire in Paris and will be included in MoMA's exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind, opening in February. This mini- mobile greenhouse processes the impure air to pure air via its natural filter i.e. the plant leaves, its roots, and a humid bath.
Bel-Air can currently be purchased as a prototype. The aim is to invite the buyers to become voluntary guinea pigs of the current test protocols in order to study and report its behavior and condition of use to the conception team. Accordingly, Bel-Air will improve before production during 2009.
