When humanitarian disasters occur it is up to the medical relief assistance to reduce the health related damage and save as many lives as possible.
So far no rooms for treatment managed by the emergency units are corresponding to the challenges the units are facing in the field.
This project aims at designing a medical room for treatment that can be transported on foot and meet the spatial and functional needs of the medical treatment to the degree the extreme environment allows.
The main part of the solution is a tent construction made out of air beams. The tent can be carried on the back, and one person can put it up in a few minutes. In consequence, time is saved, and the rest of the relief workers are released to examine and treat the injured.
The thermally controlled shelter for treatment is created by combining new textile technologies with simple common sense.
It is my wish that the air beam tent architecturally stand out in the landscape as an identity creating construction and at the same time is an accommodating element that invite the distressed inside with its softly curved construction and offer them a dignified treatment.
The mobile emergency units have a crucial role to play in humanitarian disasters. The designed medical room for treatment optimizes the treatment situation by allowing a greater number of injured to get the best possible treatment despite a massive time pressure and often in extreme climatic conditions.
The project is awarded a grant by Danmarks Nationalbank's Anniversary Foundation.
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