Concrete Canvas Shelters
[ Rapidly Deployable Infrastructure ]
This year, the world’s population is likely to hit 7 billion people. As if thats not creepy enough, recently we’ve been experiencing extreme weather patterns and witnessing the alarming melting of the polar ice caps and mountain glaciers across the world.
It is now almost widely accepted that Global Warming is a real threat and it will definitely affect all those billions of people worldwide.
It seems that all architects of the near future have a huge challenge ahead of them. They are faced with changing society from a wastefull consumerism driven society, into a greener and more earth-friendly human kind. They must also maximize resources available, enhance the world’s ecology and somehow have to come up with sustainable solutions that will help the billions that are expected to be stricken by nature with the worst of our change in climate.
If the impending doom-and-gloom scenario is real, Emergency Rapidly Deployable Infrastructures could well be a very common term in 50 years time.
Who knows? we might be faced with living in one ourselves. So why not prepare a solution using today’s technology and come up with a robust, easily installed super-shelter that can be erected using nothing but water and air? (kind of like the ironman suit for architects).
Concrete Canvas is a UK company that has done exactly that. They’ve been revolutionizing humanitarian, and ecological efforts across the globe since 2005. They manufacture a ground breaking material technology called Concrete Cloth that allows concrete to be used in a completely new way. Concrete Cloth was originally developed for the award winning Concrete Canvas Shelters, a building in a bag that requires only water and air for construction. The tents go up in 24 hours and can remain up for up to 10 years. They use 850l of water (not so bad considering its the only raw material you will need to erect it) and are resistant to fire (it has been given a class ‘B’ fire rating in Europe)
Certainly if green architecture were to ever succeed, it would do so with simplistic approaches and minimal resources. It should strive to at least have a chance of sustainably housing the millions of people in this planet that don’t have the luxury of a home. Now with innovations like the concrete canvas shelters, green architecture might just have a chance
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