Danish architecture graduate Henry Glogau has developed a distiller that purifies water using solar energy and can be assembled from cheap, readily available materials.
The Portable Solar Distiller, which won this year s Lexus Design Award, consists of a two-layered plastic tarp that is suspended on top of a simple bamboo support structure
One of these circular canopies, which have a diameter of 2.4 meters, can generate 18 litres of purified water a day.
A render shows the distiller suspended on a bamboo support structure
The designer, a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, hopes that the easily deployable design can help provide clean drinking water for some of the one billion people who are living in informal settlements.