Natural disasters are an urgent problem on a global scale. Their number is increasing due to varied reasons – most prominently climate change – leaving millions of people without a home. Radical Gravity attempts to propose a system of robotic airdropped shelters that accommodates these people in shelters, while creating environment-friendly and sustainable shelter settlements with respect to human well-being.

Following natural disasters, land infrastructure is often compromised. We therefore propose using the high-altitude airdrop method for emergency shelters deployment. Instead of limiting the stage air dropping to the delivery of standard shelters, we consider this as a self-building or self-construction stage.

The research searches for more passive strategies of control, such as manoeuvring the flight using air resistance through changes in the drag distribution during the aggregation level. The aggregation flight results in new morphologies that differ depending on environmental and site-specific parameters.