Bamboo tower that extracts water from the air

Architect Arturo Vittori and his agency, Architecture and Vision, have developed a way to supply water to arid African countries. The WakaWater tower (after the name of the waka tree of the ficus family) extracts water by condensing it from the air. In March 2014, the agency presented a life-size prototype of the tower, and now, having improved and supplemented it, they went to Kickstarter in search of financing the construction of these towers in Ethiopia. In one day, the project has already collected $ 20,000 of the requested $ 100,000.



The tower is 10 meters high (more than two times lower than the tree whose name it received: waka, or ficus vasta, can reach 25 m in height) and 4 meters in diameter suggest building from bamboo woven with polyester mesh. It looks like the installation of a modern artist, but in addition, according to the creators, it can condense from 50 to 100 liters daily. The principle of operation is the long-known " air well ".
')


The cost of building the tower is about $ 1000. It has no moving parts and does not need a power source. The tower is delivered into place, disassembled into five parts, and is assembled in less than an hour. Due to its unusual appearance, the tower can serve as a place for gathering and communicating people - as if it really was a large and spreading tree, which gives coolness in the heat.