A way to showcase a heat sensitive coating for sunlight reflecting glass.
The world is warming and our buildings are getting hotter. Air-conditioning is only making the problem worse, and it’s particularly bad in urban areas where the heat-island effect contributes to the problem.
Molly and Sian, co-founders of Albotherm, have developed a remarkable coating for glass that transitions from transparent to opaque at a tuneable temperature. This allows glass to reflect the sun’s rays when a certain temperature is reached, cooling buildings without using any energy or generating any carbon emissions.
Albotherm needed a way to demonstrate their innovative coating, so we created a thermal test chamber to show at pitches, events and exhibitions.
With only three custom parts, this product is an exercise in sustainable minimalism.
The design is simple and intuitive; the temperature displayed on the front corresponds to the heat sensors arranged inside the chamber.
Using sustainable design principles we made sure that everything about the product could be disassembled, reused and recycled at end of life if necessary. We used the smallest possible amount of off-the-shelf electronics to prevent unnecessary e-waste, ensuring that electrical components could be used elsewhere at a later date.
