To transform billboard platforms into suspended green spaces on the streets, to improve the urban landscape and monitor the air quality in the city. This is the idea behind the innovative Urban Air project, by Los Angeles artist Stephen Glassman, presented on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
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Transforming billboard platforms into suspended green spaces on the streets, to improve the urban landscape and monitor the air quality in the city. This is the idea behind the innovative project Urban Air, Los Angeles artist Stephen Glassman, presented on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
“UrbanAir transforms i già esistenti urban billboards in bamboo hanging gardens alive. Integrated with intelligent technology, UrbanAir becomes an open space in the urban skyline. A work of art, symbol and tool for a green future ", reads the description of the project, which was designed for the Los Angeles highways and will be integrated with an air monitoring system that will transmit data directly from the small wood.
But the vision doesn't stop there. After a successful launch with the first gardens, the plan is to transform the steel and wood of the advertising structures into foundations for mini forests in cities around the world. "We have worked extensively with structural and environmental engineers, designers, technicians, builders, billboard manufacturers, plumbers and outdoor advertising specialists to design and produce a complete and functional prototype that will allow any billboard to be easily transformed into a green urban forestStephen Glassman and his team explain.
Now, having reached 100 thousand dollars, they will be able to start with the first installations. This is why they ask anyone who wants to see green suspended along the streets of their city of finance the project. “Like any authentic and vital art - concludes the artist -, the greatest risk is to create something that never existed, to embrace the unknown and create something out of nothing. The key to UrbanAir's success is its extraordinary team with years of experience and proven track record in cutting-edge urban projects. These are professionals inspired by bold and challenging challenges committed to creating a better world".
Roberta Ragni
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