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When designers include laws of physics in their work, the results are always interesting. The Heat Blade radiator, which looks like a stair, is one of those products.

To create it, Gavin Harris and Henrietta Reed from Mackay & Patners have combined a single pattern element in a helicoidal form, so that each blades won’t heat other instead of the ambient air.

The water flows in the central part of the column, completes its circuit returning to the base of the unit within the rear of the element. The heated air rises upwards and outwards from the vertical heating element while a vortex of cool air is drawn to the unit base, thus providing even heating within a space and accelerating the heating process.

The Heat Blade could be set vertically, or horizontally. And with its modular structure, users can decide the length of their radiator depending on their needs.


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