Disclosed is a modular building system including, in some embodiments, one or more wall panels, one or more floor panels, and one or more roof panels. The modular building components of the modular building system including the one or more wall panels, the one or more floor panels, and the one or more roof panels can faun housing or storage structures with electrical wiring, plumbing, or both wiring and plumbing. The housing or storage structures can be erected by one or more persons without a need for a plumber, an electrician, or power tools. Also disclosed is a method for erecting one or more housing or storage structure in accordance with the modular building system.

Insulated buildings are described. The building include: (a) a sloped roof that is a prefabricated insulated roof assembly; (b) a generally horizontally arranged flooring assembly having an end that is arranged over a wall structure and under the sloped roof assembly; (c) a sloped member that is arranged over the end of the flooring assembly that is over the wall structure, and (d) a rigid foam insulation member arranged in the cavity of the roof assembly so as to bridge a lower surface of a rigid foam insulation board in the roof assembly to the sloped member.

A tornado shelter has a dome-shape, sheltering wall formed by a multiplicity of modular, hollow/cavitied wall panel units manually assembled together at respective peripheral edges by the mating engagement of interlocking, male and female portions. Each wall panel unit is a one-piece molding with opposed side wall portions in spaced apart, parallel relation defining between them respective containers with filler openings adjacent a top and containing a filler material of alternately water, a rheopectic fluid, gel or granular particles, thereby increasing impact strength and anchoring weight. Selected base panel units are formed with respective eyes receiving ground anchoring stakes. Panel portions can be laminates reinforced by wire mesh or KEVLAR integrally molded therein.

A tornado shelter has a dome-shape, sheltering wall formed by a multiplicity of modular, hollow/cavitied wall panel units manually assembled together at respective peripheral edges by the mating engagement of interlocking, male and female portions. Each wall panel unit is a one-piece molding with opposed side wall portions in spaced apart, parallel relation defining between them respective containers with filler openings adjacent a top and containing a filler material of alternately water, a rheopectic fluid, gel or granular particles, thereby increasing impact strength and anchoring weight. Selected base panel units are formed with respective eyes receiving ground anchoring stakes. Panel portions can be laminates reinforced by wire mesh or KEVLAR integrally molded therein.

The invention concerns a building having a wall comprising a plurality of structural wall panels, each panel having: a central core at least 80 mm thick formed from a substantially rigid polyurethane foam; and a polyurea or polyurethane skin 1-6 mm thick substantially encapsulating the central core; at least some of the panels incorporating a roof section; and the panels having sufficient 3 structural integrity to provide at least a wall of the building without the need for support beams.

A building block includes a plurality of panel elements that are each rotatable relative to each other one of the plurality of panel elements; a connecting pin that passes through and rotatably connects the plurality of panel elements to each other; and a plurality of connectors, each connector rotatably attached to a respective panel element, where each one of the panel elements includes at least on locking feature configured to create a releasably fixed connection between adjacent panel elements.

An immersive device may include reflective mirrored surfaces that form a perimeter of and bound a reflective chamber. Various geometric shapes of inner chamber such as platonic solids and objects of constant width are described that facilitate clusters of tessellations into infinite reflection unobtainable using other shapes. Specialized sizing and arrangements of the shapes allow for discrete full body observations of the tessellation clusters. One or more light emitting elements may be configured to emit light into the reflective chamber. A processing unit may be in electrical communication with the light emitting elements. A sound device may be in communication with the processing unit, and the sound device may be configured to output sound to a user within the reflective chamber. An array of sensors, such as: digital camera, microphone, and electrophysiological monitoring devices that may be in communication with the processing unit and are configured to change the experience of the user within the chamber depending upon the signals from the sensors on the user.

An immersive device may include reflective mirrored surfaces that form a perimeter of and bound a reflective chamber. Various geometric shapes of inner chamber such as platonic solids and objects of constant width are described that facilitate clusters of tessellations into infinite reflection unobtainable using other shapes. Specialized sizing and arrangements of the shapes allow for discrete full body observations of the tessellation clusters. One or more light emitting elements may be configured to emit light into the reflective chamber. A processing unit may be in electrical communication with the light emitting elements. A sound device may be in communication with the processing unit, and the sound device may be configured to output sound to a user within the reflective chamber. An array of sensors, such as: digital camera, microphone, and electrophysiological monitoring devices that may be in communication with the processing unit and are configured to change the experience of the user within the chamber depending upon the signals from the sensors on the user.

A modular wall system includes a plurality of extruded wall panels each having opposing first and second surfaces and opposing first and second joiner side edges. Each joiner side edge has an edge surface adjacent the first surface, another edge surface adjacent the second surface and a tongue or groove disposed therebetween. The edge surfaces have an angle less than 90 degrees with respect to the first or second surface, respectively. The first joiner side edge is insertable into the second joiner side edge of another wall panel, with a flush fit, for interconnecting the wall panels. Each panel also has opposing top and bottom edges and a plurality of ribs connecting and perpendicular to the first surface and the second surface.

Disclosed is a modular building system including, in some embodiments, one or more wall panels, one or more floor panels, and one or more roof panels. The modular building components of the modular building system including the one or more wall panels, the one or more floor panels, and the one or more roof panels can form housing or storage structures with electrical wiring, plumbing, or both wiring and plumbing. The housing or storage structures can be erected by one or more persons without a need for a plumber, an electrician, or power tools. Also disclosed is a method for erecting one or more housing or storage structure in accordance with the modular building system.