transitional housing

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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Transitional Housing Competition

Project Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Temporary Shelter
Project Descripton:
ADVANTAGES OF THE CONCEPT:

i. ABUNDANCE OF MATERIAL
These containers are readily available worldwide and available in standard sizes and specifications. There is no shortage of these relatively cheap raw material.

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Paper Loghouse

Project Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Transitional Shelter
Project Descripton:
Paper tube structure can last permanently.

Paper Tube Structure is the structural system composed of hollow cardboard tubes made by recycled paper. PTS has been given the structural permissions from Japanese and German building....

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air envelope

Project Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Temporary Shelter
Project Descripton:
Architecture is supposed to provide shelter. In early 1999, nowhere was the need for shelter more critical than in the war-torn region of Kosovo. Hundreds of thousands were without a place to live. Their homes in ruins and the infrastructure of....

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Tree of Life

Project Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Transitional Shelter
Project Descripton:
Background
Tree of Life is a universal system, the construction of which can be infinitely varied according to local culture and conditions. The design is a basic unit providing basic human needs for water and shelter. The intent is....

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Finalists: Transitional Housing Competition

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Low Tech Balloon System

Project Location: Kosovo
Project Descripton:
The idea is that reused hemp sacks, in this case animal feed bags, are sewn together to form a dome-shaped structure. Then a series of “Life Elements” can be plugged onto the structure. The functions of these elements offer the potential of....

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