Location: Delhi, India.

Architect: ZNERA.

Delhi, the capital of India, has been in the news due to the toxic smog that has blanketed the city. Delhi is the most polluted city in the world due to industrial waste, vehicles, power plants, and crop burning in the adjacent regions. The Smog Project is a proposal to add a network of smog filtering towers throughout the city to cleanse the air and make it breathable again. The towers use the sun as a renewable source of energy to produce electric energy and hydrogen from splitting water. The towers are specifically designed to remove smog and contaminants from the air, providing pure oxygen to breathe. Each tower can produce more than 3.2 million cubic meters of clean air per day, reducing the smog ratings to moderate levels in the 1-square-kilometer area of each tower. The carbon particles collected or filtered into the carbon tank can be recycled to produce potential products such as concrete, graphene, fertilizers, and carbon ink. The Smog Project is a powerful statement that creates awareness for the fine dust problem while also providing a solution to this precarious world health problem.