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Wits Tent
Passive solar tent - demonstration project built by students at University of Witwatersrand in 1979
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The finished tent with 3 of the students that built it.
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Structure of scaffold poles with cables supporting a waterproofed fabric roof.
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The tent was allowed to stand for 6 months on its temporary site, while temperatures inside were monitored.
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Day 1 - Model of net and supports loaded to show deformation
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Day 1 - Side view of model
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Day 1 - Turn ing the first sod (the site had to be restored to its original state at the end of the project)
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Day 2 - Assembly of the scaffold pole frame
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Day 2 - Frame in position
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Day 3 - Fixing the net
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Day 3 - Fabrication of windows and doors in workshop
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Day 4 - The building team after finishing the dry ground slab and block walls
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Day 4 - Frame with hangers to support flexible roof and ceiling with insulation -side panel installed on dry block wall
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Day 4 - Frame with hangers to support flexible roof and ceiling with insulation -side panel installed on dry block wall
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Day 4 - Tent roof being hung
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Day 5 - Tent roofed
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Day 5 - Roof membrane tensioned and fixed to edges.
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Day 5 - Cords tensioning roof membrane through waterproofed reinforced holes to suspend insulated ceiling
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Day 5 - Roof tensioned and fixed to edges.
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Day 5
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Day 5 - work on interior
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Day 5 evening - ceiling suspended
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Day 6 - joinery
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Day 6 - joinery of windows and tanks installed
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Day 6 - Interior
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Day 6 - Interior
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Weeks later
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Day 6 - water storage tanks and spectators
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