Projects by the students of the
Bachelor Major in Art, Major in Design,
and the Master in Eco-Social Design

Stop – Breathe

Student

Valentina Cemin

Lecturer/s

Cecilia Sannella

Course topic/s

2019/20_Drawing 3D CAD – 1 and 2

Course/s

BA Practice Based Course

Year

2020

semester

In big cities, where there isn’t much vegetation, air pollution could become very dangerous for people. The “Stop – to Breathe” bus stations, with their plant walls, will help to clean up the air thanks to the proprieties of some plants. There are infact some plants that with their characteristics are perfect to purify

polluted air. Plants can reduce nitrogen dixide, have CO2 cleaning capabilities and relase oxigen, to cleane air but also to allow people waiting for the bus to breathe clean air.

For an outdoor plat wall is best to choose plants that need little space to grow and that are easy to care for without the need of too much water and light as Ivy, Baby’s tears plant, Bromelia Tillandsia, Mica Tradescantia, Bromelia Usneoides.

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The water to irrigate the plant wall is pumped from underground and flows through the plastic pipes, watering the plants, allowing them
to grow.
When the sun goes down the bulb lights, located under the corten panels, turn on as are twighhlight lights.
The sign, made of different size poligons, can be seen from far away telling people that there, there is a bus stop that allows to breath clean air whilst waiting for the bus. In big cities with lots of smog this could attract the attention of passersby.