Abstract
Lightweight insulations, as a Thermal Reflective Multi-layer System (TRMS), are a fast and useful answer for temporary shelter. Developed from a space suit and with a conductivity of 0,038 W/mK, this system can ensure high thermal performance in combination with an easy transport, assembly and modular design. The present paper highlight the potential of the use of this material in different experimental shelter, as building component: the case of the Scaffold House and Cardboard Shelters. The combination of TRMS building elements is a technological skin, which is constitute from modular panels made by TRM, polyester and vulcanized rubber, called Air Shelter House (ASH). The Scaffold House is made by scaffold, traditional TRMS and sandwich panels. It is a modular system easy to assembly thanks to the simple technology used, which can help the self-construction and maintenance by the users. To improve the processes of housing installation, ensuring thermal performance, the envelope is changing with a new composition of ASH system and sandwich panels. In this way, it is possible to increase the construction processes and deconstruction, in agreement with internal comfort, modularity of units, transport and possible reuse of the shelter in different contest. The plurality of plants functions (as a private house or as a public use), already studied for the internal disposition of the different modules, are still guaranteed from the small thickness of 65 mm of the ASH technology. The system, moreover, it is study in combination with cardboard shelter. This unit is designed with this economical materials used in an innovative way, assembling different layers of paper, compressed by steel bars and coated with gypsum plaster. This new envelope is closed on the top by ASH panel roof, which is lightweight, waterproof and thermal resistance in the same time. Modularity of wall and ASH panels guarantee the construction of flexible plants to adapt in different contest. The results are both a thermal, waterproof and resistance housing system which is optimized to have a faster assembly, disassembly, transport, and a large number of modularity combination, according with response phase after disaster, and shelter features.
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