Project Title: “BioTransformer”
Selected for Scholarships 2010-11, Three year Course of   Transportation – Car Design, School of Design, IED Turin

The general world concern is that our planet needs our help to decrease the global warming pollution generated and avoid contamination; consequently, people around the world are proposing working ideas on how we can contribute to one complex goal: To Save The Planet. One of the main reasons why our planet is in real danger is due to our daily transportation system, as driving cars is the most air polluting act that citizens commit, so we must think in reducing air pollution by changing the design and use of motor vehicles.

Here in Colombia, my country of origin and where I live, we are not indifferent to this problem and the awareness for protecting our environment has equally increased greatly as we have one of the best biodiversity of the planet and we don’t want that to be threatened or compromise its beauty. However, as a developing country, our population growth and recent strong economy has led to an increase in the number of vehicles in our roads as more households are able to afford them. This is generating, especially in middle sized urban towns, great concern for pollution levels.

Automotive companies around the world are changing the way they design and build their cars, some of them are using recycled materials and some are using other ways of propulsion for their cars. Some of the advances in car technology design are brilliant solutions in mitigating the problem, however that is not enough.

From my point of view, there is a topic or area that companies have not explored in depth: a vehicle that not only avoids air contamination, but in some way de-contaminates the environment. Consequently that is what my proposal of designing a vehicle, which I have denominated as a “BioTransformer”, intends to do.

This project will help to solve the problem and it is simple in the way it works. Each wheel of the car has an electric engine that will provide the energy to move the car at a responsible speed. In front and at the sides of the car it will have air entrances that will absorb the contaminated air, inside, there´s going to be a filter and a purifier that will transform the toxic air in healthy green and clean air for us, making our planet a better place to live. Can you imagine millions of cars decontaminating our planet Day by day?

When I think about my proposal, I see hope, I see cities full of green and beautiful trees, I see traffic but with cars helping decontaminate the environment, everybody helping one cause, the only goal that really matters right now in our life is to Save the place we live in : Our Planet.