Fabric Walls

The challenge we are facing is the climate adaptation and low carbon, specifically how this affects the houses.  This problem arises from the excessive use of fossil fuels due to the fact that they release large amounts of carbon dioxide in the air as a product it causes global warming. 

Our solution is to create houses based on fabric walls. For this we have to convert the fabric walls thermically insulated. By using this it is required less materials, it would be recycled which would consume less energy and the carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced. 

Our solution can be applied to a wide range of people in need. The people concerned are living in underdevelopped countries with harsh climates that could be either very warm or cold or fluctuating between these two according to seasons. These people live in houses that are badly insulated and therefore need energy to either cool it or warm it. With our solution, they won't have to warm or cool their houses which will decrease their energy expenditure and improve air quality around them. 

We are well-positioned because we know that we need to deliver a simple and easily scalable solution. Based on that we decided to recycle fabric by only grinding it and making some sort new thick fabric with it. The process is simple and made from materials widely available. This means that our solution is feasible and even by a team that has few experience.

Our solution serves a wide range of people. First because it is designed to protect people form both warm and cold temperatures. This makes it appropriate for almost all countries where precarious habitation is a major issue. From Africa to the Caribbean and South America but also Central and South Asia and Eastern Europe. Africa is made up of 1,2bn people, the Caribbean and South America 465 million people, the Asian region targeted 3,5bn people and Eastern Europe 290 million people. That makes up for a total of 5,5bn people. According to the World Bank, the rural population of the world represents 44% of the total population. That means that the rural population of our targeted area consist of 2,42bn people.

We are applying to solve a way to decrease the value of greenhouse gasses effect, this meaning to a specific population help them reduce emissions while reducing their inequities and vulnerabilities at their homes. 

The continuous heat exchange in the industry requires an appropriate thermal insulation to increase the safety of the working environment and a considerable saving of energy resources. To thermally insulate a house consists of increasing its resistance to cold or heat losses, which is achieved by incorporating insulating materials as well as a good installation of the same. The benefits in thermal insulation are many, the most outstanding of all is the great energy saving that has an impact on a house or building. Our plan is innovative because it recycles already used fabrics or garments and implements them in homes as a form of thermal insulation. This way the less privileged areas will be able to control the heat or cold in a natural way, using an environmentally friendly solution

Our impact goals for the next year is to at least have more than 5 houses done in one specific location. By this giving the family’s an opportunity to live safely in terms of the climate conditions. As soon as in five years we hope that we can do this worldwide at different locations and have many groups of our company workers helping this problem worldwide. We would love to increase the average rate of the problem by at least 50%.

We will measure the progress of our project with several different metrics. First, obviously, we will look at the number of houses that have been equipped with our product. This will help us to know whether our proposal is achieving great success, where it is doing great, who are our type customers etc… Then, we will look at the energy reductions that the equipped houses have observed during the year following the installation of our product. This will tell us if our product is really allowing families to save up on their energy expenses and reduce the pollution that the production of energy to heat or cool their houses generates. Finally, we will look at the virality on social media of our project. This is because it is a great way for it to get attention from people in need but also because it could inspire others to better insulate their houses by creating their own insulating recycled material. Even if these people do not equip their houses with our product, our goal is to reduce global CO2 emissions and anyone who improves their insulation participates to this goal.

We expect our solution to have a huge impact on the problems, since when the most vulnerable areas start using our solution, and the fabric serves as a thermal insulator, these people that live in precarious areas where it is very difficult to insulate the home without using energy will be able to cool or warm up the space. 

The technology we use is very simple. It consists of recycled clothes that we get in mass from various suppliers. It will mostly consist of clothes in bad shape that wouldn’t be suitable to be donated to someone. We will then grind these clothes and compress the fibers into panels of insulating materials of a standard size. These panels will then be easily installed in any house that needs it. 

for us is really important to have a diverse team

Our business model is based on producing and selling  a material based on recycled fabric  as a substitute to materials used in construction that didn’t even give benefits for climate conditions. Additionally it will benefit the family’s economy based on the sustainability of our material. It has a reasonable price. 

Our plan for becoming financially sustainable starts from the fact that the materials that we are going to use are recycled fabrics and most of them are received from donations, clothes that have been used before. Additionally, we would ally with organizations that have the same objectives with the recycled fabrics. 

We started by collecting clothing from our homes and from friends that they no longer use anymore. The purpose of this is to give the fabric a new use, like a second opportunity and it helps us save money from buying new fabrics.