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Smokers Rejoice! Open Smoking Booth
Design to encourage a bad habit? Go figure! FRESH is an open smoking booth designed for airport terminals. This “bubble” of self contained smoke air is filtered and fresh air is released. It’s modern and sleek with a circular arm stand on the base embedded into the floor. A cylindrical glass ash bin with a metal top stands in the middle.
When this system starts, the smoke is filtered by the arm top where low-pressure air is generated. The “air wall” (a transition between low air pressure and high air pressure) keeps the smoke within it. Then the purified fresh air is sent out to the center of the booth from the lower part of the arm. The smoking space is therefore created by this invisible spherical “air wall” through which the travelers can walk conveniently in and out of.
D.K. Wei was a finalist in our RELAX furniture design contest and received honorable mention for his Cloud Sofa. Open Smoking Booth is I.D. Magazine’s Annual Design Review 2009 winner. Congratulations!
Designer: D.K. Wei
23 Comments »
Sentry says
How about we save the trouble of designing, producing and selling these things and just quit smoking; would save a bunch of money building this thing!
Carl says
agreed, let them rot. i like seeing the substance dependant’s degraded and out side. This concept puts them inside and makes it cool. do you want that?
M.S.W. says
This looks cool. Another application for this would be to put in a refridgeration unit and make it into a true walkin cooler. Sell/lease it to stores for chilled produce/drinks
steve says
I like the fact that the glass cages in some airports looks like a death box. It’s a great design, but I would not encourage anything that made smoking look this cool. Those ugly, smoke-filled boxes at the airports was one reason I chose to quit… I decided that if I was willing to step into one of those nasty boxes, I had to do something to make changes in my life.
So, again, beautiful design, but I wouldn’t support it.
mallix says
Lol. Would love to see a crowd of smokers huddling together into THAT area! The thing is, though, that this area looks cool. Those glass rooms in airports look pathetic, and that’s why we should keep them. Smokers shouldn’t WANT to smoke in these areas. They shouldn’t WANT to smoke at ALL.
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