Comments on: SWAS tent by Tie Fan

By: Norman

Norman — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:40:21 +0000

This is Tie Fan wants to sell Tie-Fans to people who need anything, but a Fan…
Seriously, this is a joke in the wrong place?
Try your business in california, Tie Fan! …better before it gets hit by an earthquake!

(I ‘d laugh about this joke, if i hadn’t seen all this eyes full of tears and pain… mate, you are just ridiculous)

By: Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:19:28 +0000

Hi! This is a phenomenal idea, is it available to consumers yet? Is it available in North America? Thanks for any info…..evj1964@hotmail.com

By: Sara Makki

Sara Makki — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:30:08 +0000

what happened to form follows function?

By: jige

jige — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:48:38 +0000

i want buy this one. i think this in very underful and good design.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:51:06 +0000

The worlds most expensive disaster housing.
To make a building rigid you probably need a 1kw fan (bounce house size) which would need about 5 sq meters of solar panels to power it, and if you need to keep it up at night you would need twice as many solar panels and some batteries. Currently solar panels are at best $3/ watt, so 2kw is about $6k and figure another few hundred for the battery system. Having the fan at the top makes more work for the fan, as it has to support it’s own weight as well as inflating the walls, and when it rains the fan blows the water into the tent walls. All of this to avoid using tent poles. Go figure.
This is sadly another typical example of a designer who has learned to make some pretty shapes in a 3d program, but has not spent any time thinking about the actual problems of the project.

By: celine mondieu

celine mondieu — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:08:17 +0000

Yawn.

By: charles

charles — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:17:46 +0000

perhaps realistically, this project may not be the best solution, alas all the negative comments. But the capability and the flexibility of this design shall be put to account. As previous post mentions, this idea do take the mental side of traumatic event into consideration.
As for the figures with handbags… come on. Did you expect to see a grayscale figure with one hand torn and eyes popping out? Who cares if one of those are holding a bag.

By: parahttp://www.dezeen.com/2008/09/19/swas-tent-by-tie-fan/#comments

parahttp://www.dezeen.com/2008/09/19/swas-tent-by-tie-fan/#comments — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:02:21 +0000

“The design consists of a double-walled tent, which is inflated and kept rigid by a solar-powered fan”

i await more detail info from the architect to explain how the structure works…

apart for the eye candy rendering, it looks and feels claustrophobic and the (impossible) solar power fan to keep the structure inflated will no doubt be noisy…

By: One

One — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:07:12 +0000

Can we sleep in this bed? Or am I taken a wrong view…?

By: trent

trent — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:14:21 +0000

anyone else notice how the people in the renders are carrying handbags and wearing heels? one is even on the phone; where did this disaster happen, milan? love it!