Project Location: Biloxi, Mississippi, United States Building Type:Public Space/Gathering Space, Landscapes/Parks/Outdoor Spaces Project Descripton: The Mississippi coast community is rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina with more residents and businesses coming back everyday. It has been quite the struggle to get families back in safe and sustainable homes to rebuild their lives from, but homes....
Project Location: jiquipilco, estado de méxico, Mexico Building Type:Health Clinic Project Descripton: Main goals of the project:
To desing, and build a straw bale prototype model for a Health Care Centre. Using local materials and a community workshop in order to build the elements of the project:
Ferro cement water tank for rain water....
Project Location: porto, matosinhos, Portugal Building Type:Transitional Shelter, Temporary Shelter, Emergency Shelter Project Descripton: competition for a self-sufficient and sustainable mobile village for a nomad community.
the goal of the competition was to design a mobile village whose purpose was to travel along a defined itinerary, informing locals about the need to take action....
Project Location: Unspecified location Project Descripton: Cyclone Nargis hit the heart of Myanmar (Burma) on Saturday morning. While the media will focus its attention on the loss of life there will be millions displaced in the coming weeks. Large aid agencies like Oxfam and Care will be knee deep in....
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....
Project Location: Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico Building Type:Restaurant/Café Project Descripton: Light straw clay building wrap system around existing CMU block walls; new pallet truss roof, new metal rain shield, straw insulation; solar water heater; Watson Wick for kitchen waste water
Project Location: Americus, Georgia, United States Building Type:Residential – 4+ BR, Residential – 3 BR, Residential - Single Family Project Descripton: Habitat for Humanity International approached Architecture for Humanity to assist Habitat in finding an architect who could create plans for panelized houses for the Americus, Georgia, affiliate, called New Horizons Habitat. This affiliate often....
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....
