1HDC 10.02 - Emergency Shelter - Submission Forum

77 Emergency Shelter.

I began thinking about proven “temporary” structures. We all use Tents, but I thought of TIPIs and thought how it would suit the given requirements.
Idea was to use Everything from the start and Reuse it in the future.
The unit consists of, the parachute, parachute cord, outer shell made with long “STEM” units, and inner units including: Light & Energy unit(fuel), Food unit, Medical unit, Water and filteration unit and Finally soft unit containing clothes and sleeping bags etc.
Once it is deployed, a user can open the bottom and release the inner units. Then the “Stem” units can be deployed and rooted and act like poles on TIPIs. The Parachutes are then used as the outer layer and fastened together with parachute chord into a TIPI structure.
The top “Light” unit can be used to send out different signals via colors and perhaps even pulsation to indicate current status of the occupants.
I don’t have enough time to think about the materials for the STEMS or details on fabrication but this was an interesting hour. :mrgreen: