1HDC 10.02 - Emergency Shelter - Submission Forum

Introducing the Air Fortress
The Air Fortress is designed like an air mattress, but in a dome shape for shelter, the air mattress style design has an insulation effect in extreme weather conditions. It can be inflated by a battery operated pump common to air mattresses or by compressed air; we don’t want disaster victims passing out from trying to manually inflate one of these, and it contains glue that hardens inside the walls upon inflation for a semi-permanent structure. It can be shipped with first-aid items and other necessities inside, as well as a reversible tarp or parachute (reflective/absorbing) for use depending on desire to collect solar energy.