Concrete Inflatable Houses

concrete inflatable houseCan you imagine an inflatable house that can be of concrete? Inflatable house seems to be related with lightweight architecture and that cannot be concrete or strong enough. Well, researchers at Kassel University are exploring with new technologies in constructions and the materials that can be used so that the construction work gets more easy and fast.

In this direction of making concrete Inflatable Houses, they have experimented with a flexible skin with an embedded membrane like structure that is filled with a special concrete mixture that is UHPC (ultra high performance concrete). When air is filled in and the structure gets hardened the building gets finished from inside with the help of a solid concrete skeleton.

If this experiment succeeds, it would be a great help to save lives in rescue areas. Then building a concrete house will be like blowing a balloon. What will happen to the architects and engineers then? Till now we had heard of inflatable toys and now it will be a house too. In this world of instants no wonder we will hear one day about many more amazing things.

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