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Innovative no-pole tent design coming soon
We are thinking about a performance Tet to do circus theatre and it has a specific design it should also hold 1000 people as audience.Do you have the tech and design.vallikkadan@gmail.com
You need a compressor to PUMP something up?
In a world of good design, should not a good old-fashioned foot-pump be all you need? The kind that bicyclists use, where you stand upright and push/pull with your hands?
Nemo has been making pole-less tents for a while now. a RISD Alum from the Industrial Design Graduates program, currently designing for Nemo, came to speak with us about the design of their tents.
She allowed me to pitch a small, one-person tent supported by an inflatable semi-circle and the mechanism to inflate it was fascinatingly innovative and simple.
Since the support beam needed to be inflated to a certain PSI one cannot maintain with only his or her lungs, I instead had to blow into a tube leading to a small bag on which, when inflated, I would put my weight. The weight of my body would force the air through another valve in the bag (not back up the hose into my face) and into the support beam. It took a few pumps and it was as strong as could be.
So the idea of an inflatable support structure for a tent is not a new one, but then again, what is these days? I do like how this particular tent has a geodesic fram as well. Nemo hasn't done that.
http://www.nemoequipment.com/
Nemo did this a long time ago