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e hollow tubing allows
for services such as heat,
electricity or running water
and is able to adapt to various
climatic conditions
e top of the tent
collects rainwater,
which is then
filtered down the
structure's sides
It can then be
drawn back up
through thermo-
siphoning if the
inhabitant wants to
wash, for example
ese woven tents designed by Jordanian-
Canadian architect Abeer Seikaly harvest
and store renewable energy. Originally
intended to provide shelter for displaced
families in the wake of natural disasters
or warfare, the award-winning design,
Weaving A Home, in which the tent collects
and stores both solar power and rainwater,
could also be used in any number of ways
by innovators within the energy industry, as
Seikaly tells Flex.
ey're composed of high-strength plastic
tubing, moulded into sine-wave curves and
woven into a stretchable fabric membrane,
which Seikaly says is "a technical, structural
fabric that expands to enclose and contracts
for mobility."
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