Emergency Shelter

Diverso _ A toy to live

Project Location: Colombia
Building Type: Emergency Shelter
Project Descripton: This project began like academic workshop and now is a real project. This project is a architecture micro system based in plastic pieces, produced in large and economically scale for built shelter and communitarian spaces. The system is capable to....

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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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Low cost, appropriate shelter/House(amount-1200) in SIDR affected areas in Bangladesh.

Disaster Reconstruction | Emergency Shelter | Bangladesh

Project Location: 6 location in coastal area, south-west region, Bangladesh
Building Type: Emergency Shelter
Project Descripton: Location: SIDR effected area, Bangladesh. Funding: BRAC Ngo. Design team: BRAC University Architecture Dept. Engineer: BRAC University Architecture Dept. Construction: Feb 2008 -June 2008. Floor area: 17 m². Building costs: 500 €. Building....

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AfH Container Studio at USC | 2008-2009

Project Location: Various sites, Haiti
Building Type: Temporary Shelter, Technology Facility, Industrial Design, Emergency Shelter, …
Project Descripton: Design/build | deployable architecture; post-consumer bottles and containers into boats and homes

USC/Architecture for Humanity • 402 • Fall 2008

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FLEX Modular Kiosk

Project Location: Capao Redondo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Building Type: Storage Facility, Retail – Single Occupancy, Restaurant/Café, Marketplace - Outdoor, Lighting-Outdoor , …
Project Descripton: The design concept of FLEX Modular System is to re-inteprete the notion of an affordable yet attractive and functional kiosk system. The Kiosk system is easily transportable, reconfigurable and expandable by the community to fit their needs as the....

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Shelter Tube

Emergency Shelter | Energy Production | Homeless Shelter | Temporary Shelter | United States

Project Location: United States
Building Type: Temporary Shelter, Homeless Shelter, Energy Production, Emergency Shelter, …
Project Descripton: This is a emergency or temporary compact shelter that collects and shares water and electricity, refrigerates, illuminates, and connects to form mesh networks.

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life container

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....

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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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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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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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