emergency shelter

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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Pallet House Transitional Refugee Shelter

Emergency Shelter | emergency shelter | Kosovo | Transitional Housing for Returning Refugees | United States

Project Location: New York, NY, United States
Building Type: Emergency Shelter
Project Descripton: The Pallet House project was initially conceived as a transitional shelter for the refugees returning to Kosovo after the war. These people needed an immediate alternative to the typical tent solution that could potentially transform into a new....

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Global Village Shelters

Project Location: Grenada
Building Type: Emergency Shelter
Project Descripton: In 2004 the island of Grenada was ravaged by Hurricane Ivan. The hurricane caused millions of dollars of damage, decimated 85% of the housing stock and wiped out almost all of the islands main cash crop, nutmeg. With no post-disaster relief plan in....

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