Shangyi Bai, Federico Fanucchi,
Nicole Pinardi, Wei Qin, Rebecca Squeri
Tide is a vertical photobioreactor designed to emphasize the movement of the water that is necessary to grow spirulina algae.
It is specifically designed to be inserted inside a village built on the moon, where astronauts could spend up to 6 months. Spirulina, thanks to its extraordinary nutritional properties, could become a fundamental element for the nutrition of the inhabitants of the moon. Because of the potential that these algae have, this product aims to grow a small batch of them for personal consumption by the astronauts.
Something unique and unreplicable on Earth.
Because gravity on the Moon is equivalent to 1/6 of the terrestrial one, Tide is made up of very organic and nature-inspired shapes, giving it almost a sculptural look, that both resembles and aids the path of the water flowing down from the top to the bottom.
