Work plan

Scope of work

Stage 1: Material Library

A thorough market research will be performed in order to find the available material resources that are commonly used in an emergency. In particular various fabrics and tensile structure components. A small library will be created that later might be used optimisation techniques. With enough data an algorithm may be created that could try out all the possible material choices from the library and give out the most optimal results among the choice.

Stage 2: Testing

Some of the widely used fabrics will be tested in single layered and composite modes to determine their thermal and acoustical characteristics. Also, their structural capabilities will be tested (see details in methodology). These characteristics are later going to be used to perform digital simulations on various solutions to determine the optimal usage of the materials. In some parts an optimization process may be added.

Stage 3: Design

The obtained knowledge and data will be used to create shelter designs that act mainly on tensile fabric structures, provide enough internal comfort and maintain reusability.
Possible types of structures:
Comparisons may be made to widely used non-tensile structure shelter internal comfort conditions where appropriate in order to better assess the outcomes of given solutions. The final design solutions should be prototyped and if possible made into fully working models.