Disaster Mitigation - Earthquake-resistant

Hurricane House

Project Location: Unspecified location
Building Type: Transitional Shelter, Emergency Shelter
Project Descripton: This is transitional or permanent housing that is flood, hurricane, earthquake, and insect resistant. It can be built on a pad of gravel or on two beams. It can be constructed of fiberglas, scrap wood, rebar and sheet metal, or basket material.

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Unabody Building System

Disaster Mitigation - Earthquake-resistant | Costa Rica

Project Location: Costa Rica
Project Descripton: One of the most cost effective 1 or 2 story concrete and steal building systems, in the market. That it looks like block and can take 8.0 on the Richter Scale and remain habitable, well that’s a home for the best of times and the worst of times!....

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ARK

Project Location: Glebe, NSW, Australia
Building Type: Residential – 4+ BR
Project Descripton: Pre-fab 400+ sq m house that floats, resists earthquake, bushfire, tempest and is assembled by two men in a couple of days - no tools required, cheaper than comparable sized conventional housing

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Boomerang at b-green.org Costa Rica

Project Location: Tilaran, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Building Type: Residential - Single Family
Project Descripton: The state-of-art Boomerang House was the first to be built in the b-green.org development. The home is 1000 square feet of art and architecture, integrating the smooth curved lines of an Australian boomerang with a custom “sunrise design” wood....

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AMU - Alternative Masonry Unit | A System of Eco-Concrete Materials

Project Location: Unspecified location
Project Descripton: A research stream directed at eco-concrete and ag-byproduct materials systems.

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Earthquake Relief in Sichuan, China

Disaster Mitigation - Earthquake-resistant | Disaster Reconstruction | China

Project Location: Sichuan, China
Project Descripton:

A powerful 7.9 earthquake struck the western province of Sichuan, China at 2:28p local time on Monday, May 12, 2008. We've started this project page to gather links to buildng information and earthquake-resistant design strategies. We welcome....

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Open-Source Bamboo Shelter

Project Location: Unspecified location
Building Type: Homeless Shelter, Emergency Shelter
Project Descripton: A process for community-built bamboo relief housing

“Bamboo DNA's strength comes from its collaborative network of talented people... artists, builders, performance artists, and pretty much anyone who has an interest in seeing bamboo....

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Survivorbuildingregeneration

Project Location: Unspecified location
Project Descripton: Survivorbuildingregeneration makes earthquake and hurricane proof buildings, basically it is the old balloon frame put together with modern metal wood connectors. It is the wood connectors that make these buildings earthquake and hurricane proof. ....

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survivorbuildingregeneration

Project Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Building Type: Residential – Mixed Development
Project Descripton: Survivorbuildingregeneration is the old balloon frame done with modern metal wood connectors, or metal to metal connectors which makes this type of building earthquake, and hurricane proof, which is the survivor part. The regeneration part is that....

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Inexpensive, expandible, community-built School for parched, mudslide-prone hills.

Project Location: Khasauli, Palpa, Nepal
Building Type: Water treatment, Emergency Shelter, Education Facility - Training Center, Education Facility - Secondary School, Education Facility - College/University , …
Project Descripton:

In 1995 community members and local teachers from four villages (Khasauli, Kusum, Bhairabstan, and Deurali) came together and formed the Bhawaani Bhairab Aadarsha Higher Secondary School Management Committee. Its main goal was to open a Higher....

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