CONCRETE CLOTH: Flexible Material Makes Durable Disaster Shelters
When a disaster strikes, it’s often difficult to get shelters up in time for displaced residents. Enter Concrete Canvas’s new Concrete Cloth, a durable waterproof building material made of cement sandwiched between fabric. The cloth, which won Material ConneXion’s Material of the Year 2009 award, can be molded into any shape when bonded with water — and it takes just two hours to set!
Great, but it has one problem that they need to change:
There’s just one drawback to Concrete Cloth: the material contains PVC, a plastic that leaches toxic chemicals
.Fix that, instant shelters! Via inhabitat.com.
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