Redesigning an air filter: hexagonal design

At www.redesignme.com/ a challenge was placed to come up with a new shape for an air cleaner for barns. This concerns barns in which animals are reared, like chickens or pigs. The air cleaner is basically a rectangular box like a sea freight container and not very appealing to the eye. I made two redesigns of which this is one.

My redesign:

Build the air cleaner unit in the form of an elongated hexagonal and place it on top of two adjacent barns.

If the foundations are strong enough, the unit could be placed on the wall between the barns, otherwise a foundation must be poured inside the barn and the unit be placed on columns.

Most barns have the same shape. A rectangle with a triangle on top. Roof slope approximately 30 degrees. The unit fits in between the roofs and because it has a “roof” of itself, blends in, in the building complex.

The unit can be placed on a single barn too, then it needs a shed below it, to cover up the empty space.







This placement has the added benefit that the unit is centrally placed, thus reducing the cost of ducting inside the barn.

Ducting diagram