The Rain door is an alternative tent door, it works as part of a landscape and an atmosphere. One sits inside and tweeks the rain funnels in order to try a capture the rain. They can be turned 'off' by a 180 degree twist. One can move the tent also- to get a good direction.
The rain comes through from outside in globules. It can be harvested directly this way. The rain door intends to make you hope for rain, and respond to rain. As part of this one begins to understand rain, and water in terms of direction, landscape, volume, character, illusivenes....
Here it is installed as a prototype as part of our family summer camping holiday in Weymouth, it is made out of Etaproof waterproof organic cotton - which is waterproof entirely due to the nature of it weave :www.stotzfabrics.ch, and reacts with the surface tension of water to form it into 'mercurial' droplets
Pins (for now)
Recycleable eyelets from www.dtpsupplies.com
Ready for Rain
Moving the rain funnels - trying to find the right angle for the conditions
No rain - so cheating instead
The 'rain' comes through
Torrential rain at night - we missed it, we were asleep.
A pattern will emerge on the rain door depending on the type of rain and ones interaction with it
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ReplyDeleteI found this blog by accident when vigorously surfing the internet. I just wanted to let you know that the fabric Etaproof is not something you should drink from. This goes for both the standard version and the organic version. The organic verfsion is of course not as bad but still bad enough for nature and certainly bad if you drink water that has been in contact with it. What makes the water bead up on the fabric is not the way that the threads are arranged in the fabric or how tightly woven it is but the treatment it gets after beeing woven at the factory. What make sthe water bead is fluor carbons. If you do not know what these are then I suggest you take a quick google investigation. The organic version is treated with the less harmful (for nature) carbon C6 while the standard version has carbon C8. C6 is cancerogenic. Both go out in nature and stay for a long time causing an array of bad effects. Both go straight throug water purificatioin processes aswell.
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