Refugee shelters could be built from concrete fabric in 24 hours
Cortex Shelter by Cutwork is a concept for a shelter for refugee camps than could be built by adding water to a concrete textile in just 24 hours.
Conceptual architecture studio Cutwork designed the shelter to be built with Cortex Composites, a type of flatpack concrete sheeting that can be rolled into place and set into a permanent form by adding water.
The concrete shell hardens in 24 hours and can last up to 30 years with little maintenance, making it potentially a better option than the long-term tent cities that many refugees are currently living in.
Cutwork designed the shelter to show how the material could be used to improve the conditions of some of the 25.9 million refugees recognised by the United Nations.
"Our mission is to create stability and security for people who have lost the most ? essential safety, a place to call home, and the simple foundations to rebuild communities and hope," said Cutwork CEO Kelsea Crawford.
Cortex Shelter would require no skilled labour to build and would take two people just a day to erect.
Metallic tubes would be bent into position to create a frame onto which Cortex Composite's concrete textile can be unrolled over and hydrated to set.
After water is added to the concrete textile, the water soluble fabric holding it disintegrates, leaving behind concrete reinforced by a framework of 3D matting.
Cortex Composite claims its material is two times stronger than traditional concrete. The concrete for the shelter ...
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