Spiroo
Spiroo
Spiroo
Overview
Overview
Design for Sustainability
Design for Sustainability
Indoor Food Cultivation
Indoor Food Cultivation
Air Quality
Air Quality
Spiroo is a modular interior divider and domestic photobioreactor that seamlessly combines air filtration, space shading, and fresh spirulina cultivation for sustainable home nutrition.
Context
Politecnico di Milano
Politecnico di Milano
Year
2025
Discipline
Product Design
Living furniture that breathes with you
Living furniture that breathes with you
Living furniture that breathes with you
Challenge
Challenge
Urban living is increasingly challenged by urban heat islands, deteriorating indoor air quality, and the reliance on resource-intensive, carbon-heavy food production. At the same time, conventional superfood supplements often rely on heavy industrial processing, packaging, and long supply chains that compromise their nutritional freshness and disconnect consumers from their source. The challenge was to bridge the gap between climate adaptation and personal wellness by designing a zero-mile domestic solution that mitigates indoor climate extremes while empowering users to harvest their own live, sustainable superfood directly at home.
Urban living is increasingly challenged by urban heat islands, deteriorating indoor air quality, and the reliance on resource-intensive, carbon-heavy food production. At the same time, conventional superfood supplements often rely on heavy industrial processing, packaging, and long supply chains that compromise their nutritional freshness and disconnect consumers from their source. The challenge was to bridge the gap between climate adaptation and personal wellness by designing a zero-mile domestic solution that mitigates indoor climate extremes while empowering users to harvest their own live, sustainable superfood directly at home.
Result
Spiroo bridges the gap between high-tech micro-farming and everyday domestic design. By integrating automated spirulina cultivation into a modular room screen, it delivers a triple benefit:
Domestic Superfood Harvest: Produces fresh, nutrient-dense spirulina daily, eliminating packaging, transportation, and industrial processing costs.
Active Air & Climate Regulation: Natural photosynthesis sequesters indoor CO2, enriches the home with oxygen, and provides passive solar shading to help cool spaces.
Frictionless Domestic Tech: An intuitive filtration cup and an integrated smart module track pH, temperature, and biomass density for effortless home maintenance.
Spiroo bridges the gap between high-tech micro-farming and everyday domestic design. By integrating automated spirulina cultivation into a modular room screen, it delivers a triple benefit:
Domestic Superfood Harvest: Produces fresh, nutrient-dense spirulina daily, eliminating packaging, transportation, and industrial processing costs.
Active Air & Climate Regulation: Natural photosynthesis sequesters indoor CO2, enriches the home with oxygen, and provides passive solar shading to help cool spaces.
Frictionless Domestic Tech: An intuitive filtration cup and an integrated smart module track pH, temperature, and biomass density for effortless home maintenance.
The Daily Ritual & User Experience
Cultivating superfood becomes a seamless part of the domestic routine. Spiroo turns maintenance into an intuitive, two-minute morning ritual: users simply place the dedicated filtering cup into the harvesting chamber to collect fresh, nutrient-rich spirulina paste ready for smoothies or daily meals.
The Daily Ritual & User Experience
Cultivating superfood becomes a seamless part of the domestic routine. Spiroo turns maintenance into an intuitive, two-minute morning ritual: users simply place the dedicated filtering cup into the harvesting chamber to collect fresh, nutrient-rich spirulina paste ready for smoothies or daily meals.
Design for Disassembly & Circular Lifecycle
Engineered around circular design principles, Spiroo minimizes environmental impact across its entire lifecycle. Every element relies on standard mechanical fixtures, modular hinges, and snap-fit connections, completely avoiding irreversible adhesives to ensure fast assembly and effortless repair.
Design for Disassembly & Circular Lifecycle
Engineered around circular design principles, Spiroo minimizes environmental impact across its entire lifecycle. Every element relies on standard mechanical fixtures, modular hinges, and snap-fit connections, completely avoiding irreversible adhesives to ensure fast assembly and effortless repair.
1:2 Prototype
A working 1:2 scale prototype was built to validate Spiroo's domestic superfood reactor design. The physical model serves as a direct proof-of-concept to test continuous loop hydraulic circulation, verify the structural integrity of the tubular frame, and refine assembly and maintenance sequences.
1:2 Prototype
A working 1:2 scale prototype was built to validate Spiroo's domestic superfood reactor design. The physical model serves as a direct proof-of-concept to test continuous loop hydraulic circulation, verify the structural integrity of the tubular frame, and refine assembly and maintenance sequences.
Exploded View
Exploded View
Exploded View
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