2024 - Silk Road ·Rainbow Road

Per Aspera Ad Astra.

The camel bells of the Silk Road echo, looking back into the depths of history. The distant and long Silk Road has powerfully promoted the collision, exchange, and integration of material and culture between the East and West, providing channels for different countries and ethnic groups separated by mountains and rivers to understand each other, and promoting the development of human civilization. The ancient Silk Road is now also a connection between villages, which is gradually fading due to harsh conditions, and we want to revitalize this vein through the rainbow, which symbolizes hope.

The Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan, a necessary passage of the Silk Road. The temperate continental arid climate of Central Asia is extremely harsh, and together with the sky full of yellow sand, it makes transportation here closed off, and there is a lack of water sources along the road. However, in order to transport materials, the Sogdian camel caravans from three villages and towns about 100 kilometers northeast of the capital Ashgabat are still persisting. The living materials transported from other places to the town of Bokurdak will be loaded onto camels and transported 85 kilometers to the southeast to the town of Shirlama, and then continue to travel 17 kilometers to the southeast to the town of Kyrkkui to complete the entry of materials. Subsequently, the salt mines of Kyrkkui and Shirlama towns will be exported to Bokurdak town, and then transported to other places in Turkmenistan.

The long desert journey of a hundred kilometers, water and direction are the most precious hope on the Silk Road. Looking into the distance, you can only see the endless sea of sand. We hope to give light the mission of bringing people water supply along the way, guiding the direction of the route like a navigational lighthouse, and bringing a rainbow that usually does not appear in the desert, representing the appearance of hope and a sense of security with direction. There is a rainbow, there is water, which is the hope of water, the source of life.

We can use light to create a source of life along the way to be ready for emergencies; we can use light to create a beautiful rainbow route on the Silk Road, providing comfort to the hearts of every warrior entering the desert and illuminating their direction.

In the desert where Rainbow bloom, you will no longer be a wasteland.

We have arranged towers that bring rainbows along the Silk Road to guide the direction and collect water. In the bitter journey of the desert, it is like the lighthouse at sea, guiding the direction; it is also like the traditional wind towers in the desert, providing the camel team resting at the bottom with cooling and cooling, and obtaining water sources.

In order to fully produce water droplets and allow light to form a rainbow, we designed a double-layer spiral-shaped graceful curved outline, while allowing the inner spiral-shaped collection film to rotate in compliance with the desert wind. By storing solar energy during the strong sunlight in the desert during the day, and driving the device to rotate with the desert wind, the water collection mesh is efficiently collecting a large amount of water vapor in the desert air at night, and storing water in the upper and lower parts of the central spherical glass container ”Rainbow Glass Pot”. During the day, a large number of small water droplets floating on the upper part of the container are formed into an air rainbow by sunlight, and at the same time, the lower part of the spherical container filled with water will also form a colorful strip due to dispersion, becoming the ”Rainbow Lighthouse” that guides the direction.

People can directly take away drinking water with their own water bottles, and they can also take away the small ”Rainbow Glass Pots” around the central container. After drinking water, the glass pot can also provide a function of purifying water through sunlight distillation, ensuring survival. People can replace the water-filled glass pot at the next rainbow tower, forming a cycle of use. At the same time, the energy stored by the device during the day illuminates the central glass pot at night, continuing to guide the direction. The caravan can change the color of the solar energy lamp in an emergency, making the tower a beacon to guide rescue.

In the vast land of Turkmenistan’s drought, the native plants of the Douglas fir in the oasis near the village are protected by the residents, and some branches are cut down in a timely manner to make good building materials. The framed rainbow tower can be built by the villagers with the poles made of Douglas fir, which is the use of local resources and co-construction.