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title [year, status] "air occupation" [2001, concept]
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'Air Occupation'
Air Improvement System, London Underground, Manor House Tube Station

Main elements

(1) Air is filtered through airbags which occupy the platform,
passenger are waiting in between
stale air suct into filter balloons with mechanical pressure
and is pressed through the surface of the bags which filter the air

(2) Air funnels catching the moving stale air and is transported above ground
it profits from the natural movement of air, while the train is approaching

(3) Carriages are filled with oxygen while the train is waiting in the sation
Nozzles press oxygen from the top in the carriages while passengers laeving and entering

(4) Dust membranes in the channels open automatically when the train approaches
These memdranes prevent an exchange between dusty, stale and filtered air throgh the channels