Rapidly deployable enclosure, this system has been developed in response to: quick temporary construction, cold climates, areas with few local supplies for building (on the scale and time frame of large transitional populations), areas with limited accessability (extreme isolation), little to no training or assumed knoledge for construction. An inner bladder is inflated and the resultant cavity is rigidized from a two part polyeurathane foam that is mixed on site and poured into the cavity. Solidification into an occupiable enclosure occurs within 1 hour. The project's design development is complete and full scale prototypes are almost underway (looking for sponsorship). The following series is taken from the last physical scale prototype developed.
Comments and questions are always welcome!
rapidly deployable cold climate temporary enclosure
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These are some of my final images from the thesis review at the University of Arizona were this project was developed over the course of two semesters. If there is anyone curious to know how I developed this, I would be happy to show additional earlier prototypes and will respond to any posts. Shop drawings are under way for the fabrication of a 1/4 scale fully functioning inflatable whcich will be prototyped relatively soon. I'll be doing another set of drawins (a patern drawing really) for the outer fabric membrane and be sewing that myself.When the drawings are done I will post them here as well as any new prototype photos.