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Concrete Canvas: material for emergencies

PUBLISHED 19 Oct 2010 - 5:19pm

AUTHOR: William Shaw

Simple construction techniques for emergency shelters; this is a British design for an emergency shelter created by Concrete Canvas. Their design is based around a new material technlogy called "concrete cloth". It's a waterproof, fireproof material that hardens when wetted, so that a building can be created by just two or more people within 24 hours, and as these photos from Concrete Canvas shows, it takes shapes that are oddly light and beautiful, considering the tough circumstances for which they're created. Inside a Concrete Canvas shelter. Concrete Canvas websiteVia Dailytonic.com More

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