AA Alum Britta Knobel Gupta of Studio Symbiosis receives 2023 Red Dot Design Award

Studio Symbiosis have received the 2023 Red Dot Product Design Award for Verto, a multi-directional air purification tower. The tower rotates as it rises and turns polluted air into clean air. Air pollution has become a serious health issue across the globe, where 99% of people living in urban areas are exposed to air quality levels that exceed the World Health Organization (WHO) limits.

Verto has been designed using the principals of aerodynamics to propagate maximum surface area and increased wind speed. It permits 360° air purification and is able to clean 700,000m³ of air per day. The triangular perforations are designed as a performance driven system, with bigger openings at inlets and outlets. The air is sucked in from energy efficient fans and is filtered through fine dust filters to remove pollutants from the ambient air. An IoT control system enables the operation according to demand.

The Red Dot Design Award is an international, annual design competition, more information on the award can be found here.

Image: Detail of the Verto air purification tower by Studio Symbiosis.