Projectile Assisted Deployable Structures (P.A.D.S.)

PADS was a product of Professor Chuck Hoberman’s Transformable Design Methods course at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

This structure was conceived to provide stable infrastructure in emergency situations. Most simply, these could be emergency shelters, more complexly, field hospitals. From ground conflict blocking resources to desolate geographies this structure could be deployed via air drop and require little on-ground support. The fundamentals principles of this project was to create a deployable structure for rapid and high throughput deployment, requiring minimal post-deployed set up.

***SARS-CoV-2 Update: The unexpected need for additional hospital capacity has proven to be problematic, likely increasing deaths counts in areas where hospitals were over capacity. While additional design considerations would have to be made to make this structure worthy of treating patients, it has highlighted societies need for greater infrastructure agility.