Soft Clinic

Soft Clinic by the Canadian Bakerygroup was designed for a mobile AIDS/HIV clinic competition organized by Architecture for Humanity-a charitable organization that promotes architectural and design solutions to global, social and humanitarian crises. Soft Clinic is a fully integrated, folding tensile structure and self-contained tented enclosure.

The central core of the clinic is used for transportation, storage of equipment, utilies and the tensile enclosure. Minimal cost and ease of fabrication were the principal design criteria. The underlying idea of the Soft Clinic was to develop a structure that could be easily assembled with locally available materials and skills such as fabrics and sewing. The design of the Soft Clinic does not require and special tools or a difficult setup process. Hardware and joinery are simplified by using flexible tubing.(from Space craft:fleeting architecture and hideouts)


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