Inspired by Italian architect Arturo Vittori's Warka tower, which captures humidity in the air and transforms it into drinking water. The ‘Kitai’, designed by the WaterForAll organisation (a grouping of several multinational companies), is a huge structure made of 1,000 pre-polymerised fabrics that use condensation to filter the water contained in the oceans to produce an inexhaustible source of drinking water.
Its shape, reminiscent of a stadium, is gigantic, and made up of solid ‘solidium’ sails that filter and purify the water.
The ‘workshop’, located 20 km off the coast of Scotland, is where the Kitai are manufactured. A huge scaffold is built around it, to protect the structure from the elements during the various Kitai design processes, including the crucial step of polymerising the Solidium.
The construction is carried out by around thirty drones, which are assigned exclusively to one kitai and will remain so thereafter for the maintenance of the structure.
The kitai are transported to their final location exclusively at night to avoid any problems with water vapour, which could disturb the drones. The low weight of the Kitai allows the drone to glide over the water thanks to the induction properties of solidium.
The arrival of the Kitai is always an event, as when the first model arrived above the clouds of pollution in Mumbai. What's more, the mixture of salt water and pure water on the surface of seas or oceans creates impressive clouds of vapour.
Although the Kitai itself as well as its transport and installation are offered by the organisation. The drones that ensure the Kitai's smooth operation and maintenance are subject to a very expensive rental contract. This marks the first blatant example of the sale of a universal natural resource...
Nice project! Reminds me of Blade runner and Dune