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airable tile

Air, reimagined.

Hardware that puts an AC face to any space. Filtered, scented, beautiful, and held together entirely by magnets. Nothing to unscrew, ever.

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airable tile flush against a ceiling

About us

Gritty engineering.
Quietly beautiful ceilings.

At airable, our goal is to seamlessly integrate the gritty engineering of home and office HVAC with visually unobtrusive and pleasing ceiling tile vents. Our airable tile product is an AC vent that lets the customer choose the color, vent shape, size, and material, all put together into one modular system. The core idea is to create a ceiling mounted AC vent which can be customized, cleaned, and have its filters replaced, all tool-free, thanks to a magnetically fastened design.

Early concepts explored the use of sensors and actuators to automatically detect when a room is in use and turn the vent on and off accordingly. However, since the central AC unit would independently remain running, this would not have reduced energy use. Additionally, sensors and motors would need power either from the building or from standalone batteries, requiring frequent maintenance and decreasing the product's lifespan due to increased complexity. Instead, we opted for a more simple and user friendly experience: an entirely mechanical vent that relies only on passive filtration. Our product prioritizes user-facing elements such as intuitive filter replacement and vast customization options.

Our team

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Recognition

James Dyson Award

Submitted to the James Dyson Award for Summer 2026, engineering that solves a real problem, simply.

No screws. No tools.
No hardware you'll ever see.

Hardware that puts an AC face to any space, faceplate, grills, filter stack, all held together with magnets.

01 · Design

Invisible until you look.

A single seamless aperture, flush with the ceiling grid. The mesh disappears when idle and opens when the room asks for air.

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airable tile in matte white, single slot aperture

Signature. One seamless slot.

airable tile with vent aperture open

In motion. The aperture opens and directs air where it's needed.

Every size. Every space.

Built around how you live, not around your ductwork. Three sizes, one experience.

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Choose your airgrill.

Four apertures, from open channel to fine perforation. Every one snaps on magnetically and shapes the air differently.

Max, verified. The 24 × 24 carries two additional vent grills, three apertures moving air across the largest spaces.

02 · Filtration

Five stages. Zero tools.
Filtration in every product.

Every airable, every size, every edition carries the full stack. A washable stack of Japanese-inspired materials, including a dedicated aroma diffuser filter that releases a fine mist of musky scent. The whole cartridge clicks in and out on magnets. Swap it in seconds.

The five filter stages, 1 Washi fiber captures dust, lint, pollen, and dander; 2 Electret filter traps PM2.5, smoke, and allergens; 3 Binchotan charcoal adsorbs odors and moisture; 4 Aroma diffuser filter diffuses a fine mist of musky scent; 5 Kakishibu coating deodorizes and resists bacteria

Breathe
Beautifully.

The campaign. The promise. Air you can feel, on a face worth looking at.

airable × Stormzy, Flagship Edition. Stormzy beside the matte black airable tile

airable × Stormzy, Flagship Edition. The face of Breathe Beautifully.

Future plans in AIRABLE

Collaboration Edition.

Make your vent the art piece of your space, your AC face in your space. Limited collections with the world's leading artists and fashion houses.

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03 · Themes

A theme for every room.

Personalize your airable tile with anything and everything, grills, perforations, and more. Every face is held by magnets: pull one off, snap another on. One gesture, no tools. Choose a theme to see its face.

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A person lifting an airable faceplate into an open ceiling duct by hand

Fits the ceiling you already have.

airable drops into a standard ceiling opening and seals to your existing duct. Lift it into place, the magnet ring pulls it flush, the tension rods lock it. No drywall work, no contractor, no screws.

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Installs in minutes. Stays perfect.

Magnetic mounting plate secured to a standard AC duct opening

Prepare

The plate secures to any standard duct opening.

The vent cover aligning itself onto the magnets

Snap

Magnets align the cover and pull it into place. No screws.

The finished airable vent, seamless in the ceiling

Done

A seamless finish that elevates any space.

Air you can see.

One seamless slot, streaming filtered air the full length of the aperture.

04 · Engineering

Drawn to the millimeter.

Every radius and aperture is specified before it's built. The entire assembly is magnetic, a neodymium ring aligns and holds each part against gravity. Not a single screw.

AirAble 360 face plate CAD drawing, front elevation and section B-B, 280 mm (11 in)
3D model of the airable faceplate, extruded slot aperture
Machined faceplate part, brushed aluminum
CAD model, faceplate hovering above the magnetic mounting frame, exploded view

Two parts. The faceplate floats onto the magnetic frame, nothing else between them.

CAD model, the housing frame with tapered air channel and magnet pockets at each corner

One channel. The housing tapers the duct into the slot, with a magnet pocket at each corner.

SolidWorks model, louver faceplate with three slot apertures, isometric view

The louver face. Three apertures with fine parallel blades, machined from one plate.

SolidWorks model, slot faceplate, three open channels, isometric view

The open face. The same plate with channels cut clean through for full flow.

SolidWorks exploded view, faceplate, filter sheet, and magnetic housing frame in a vertical stack

Three layers. Faceplate, filtration sheet, magnetic frame, the whole exploded stack.

SolidWorks exploded view, rectangular and square faceplates over a shared filter and housing

One system, every size. Rectangular and square faces share the same filter and frame.

The real parts. Live.

The actual CAD solids, drag to rotate, slide to pull the stack apart.

Assembled Exploded

Max, the 3-vent face.

The 24 × 24 plate with three louvered vents, as one machined solid. Drag to rotate.

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Philosophy

It started with bad air.

AIRABLE design board, the journey from problem to final form: field notes, key insight, the face, one face three sizes, the 5-stage stack, final form, and NYC asthma numbers

Design journey · problem → final form · NYC / NJ · summer 2026

05 · Spaces

Beyond the home.
The office, the store, even transport.

One system for houses, offices, and towers, flush with any ceiling grid, serviced without a ladder crew. Anywhere air moves and people breathe.

The same office tower with airable, tiles flush on every ceiling
An office tower at night with ordinary drop ceilings and boxy vents
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BEFORE

WITH AIRABLE

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A train carriage interior with airable louvered vents flush in the ceiling line

Transport. The same tile, flush in a train carriage ceiling.

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The airable app

Every room. From anywhere.

Leaving the gym? Cool the bedroom, warm the kitchen, and let a fine mist of scent fill the living room before you're home. The app tells you when a filter wants washing or a part needs attention, the tile itself stays silent.

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airable

21 Kings Court, Fort Lee

Home

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360° flow

Filter health

Wash in 3 weeks · No repairs needed

76%

Working with your HVAC

Synced with the central AC at 21 Kings Court

Working with your thermostat

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Scents

Intensity

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Care

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Your products

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Track for me

Counts the weeks from your install date and notifies you, nothing to log

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Purely mechanical, you log the install and each new filter; the app counts the weeks and tells you when it's dirty and when to replace.

The airable app. Liquid glass, room by room.

Breathe better, sooner.

Be first to know when airable tile is ready.

You're on the list. Breathe easy.