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Marco Zagaria: Egloo

The young Italian designer Marco Zagaria proposes a terracotta candle-powered heater, conceived to warm small domestic spaces without using electricity.

Conceived by Marco Zagaria to contrast continuous waste of electricity used for warming domestic rooms, Egloo is a candle-powered heater that provides a cheaper and more ecological energy, taking advantage of features of terracotta that stores the heat and slowly and gradually releases it by radiation, even after it blows out.

Egloo is composed by four elements: the base, the grill and the two domes. The base offers a space for the positioning of the candles that, once you light them up, will warm the domes up. There is a metal grill placed on the base, serving as a support for the domes. It makes a space to let the air in, necessary for the combustion of the candles.

The thinner dome, centrally placed, stores a high rate of heat, that is conveyed to the external dome; the dome's air intake facilitate the outgoing of the warm air stored between the covers, allowing thermal exchange with the environment.