Concrete tent
The concrete tent (Engl. Concrete Canvas Shelters (CCS)) is one of the industrial designers William Crawford and Peter Brewin for disaster relief developed emergency shelter . The concrete-reinforced canvas combines the advantages of tents and solid concrete structures.
concept
The concrete tent is delivered in a package that weighs around 230 kilograms with a tent area of 16 m². The packaging is made of waterproof PVC film, the tent wall itself is a concrete-filled sandwich construction made of linen fabric and PVC film (Concrete Canvas (CC)). The volume of the packaging corresponds to that of the water that must be added in order to achieve a suitable mixing ratio between water and concrete. After the water has been added, the tent needs to be inflated, which takes about 40 minutes. It then hardens for 12–24 hours and can then be used. With an angle grinder , entrances, windows, ventilation slots or the like can be cut into the dried wall. There are different sizes with areas between 16 and 50 square meters, the shape corresponds statically to that of half an eggshell or a Nissen hut and the wall thickness is 5–13 mm. The construction work can be done by two people.
financing
A tent package costs between 2,000 and 15,000 euros - the industrial manufacturability of the tent could, however, drastically reduce the costs in mass production . The first sales partner so far is the South Korean Shin Seung.
Prices
- 2005 - Winner of the Saatchi & Saatchi World Changing Ideas Award
- 2007 - Finalist in the Design to Improve Life Award
- 2007 - Winner of the D&AD Yellow Pencil Award in the Product Design category
Other possible uses
The linen fibers impregnated with concrete are already used in sewer construction.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spiegel Online - Disaster Relief: Concrete tent to protect the homeless. Retrieved May 5, 2015
- ↑ Spiegel Online - Disaster Relief: Concrete tent to protect the homeless. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ↑ Concrete tent website , accessed on May 5, 2015.
- ↑ News archive April 2015 of the web presence of the inventors ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) Entry from April 20, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
- ↑ PDF - CC Ditch-Lining , accessed on May 5, 2015.
