Aside from providing shelter, this innovative engineering design will collect water and store solar energy. Inhabitants can actually take a shower from the collected rainwater via a process called thermosiphoning which draws the water back up. The solar energy is transferred to the tent’s fabric and then stored to a battery.
Named ‘Weaving a Home’, this design was inspired by materials found in nature and traditional cultural activities such as weaving, has a double-layer surface to keep out wet and cold weather while allowing cool air in during summer.
The design uses a unique structural fabric composed of high-strength plastic tubing molded into sine-wave curves that can expand and enclose during different weather conditions, and also be broken down to allow an ease in mobility and transport.
