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stand together

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stand togetherProject Location: Africa & Arab States
Building Type: Temporary Shelter, Residential – Public Housing, Residential – Multi-Family Low Rise, Homeless Shelter, Emergency Shelter, …
Project Descripton: Designing a shelter is quite complex. Conditions can differ from hot to cold, from mountainous to flat and from dry to wet. Disasters don't discriminate, it could happen anywhere, in remote areas, as well as in cities, to anyone, families as....
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QuickQuarters

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QuickQuartersProject Location: Bellevue, Wa. , United States
Building Type: Transitional Shelter, Temporary Shelter, Residential – 3 BR, Residential – 2 BR , Residential – 1 BR, …
Project Descripton: QuickQuarters is dedicated to creating and marketing high quality, reasonably priced solutions for a variety of temporary structural needs. QuickQuarters offers unique containerized, transportable, and re-deployable structures for both public and....
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What if New York City:Design Competition for Post-Disaster Provisional Housing (Vertical Village)

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What if New York City:Design Competition for Post-Disaster Provisional Housing (Vertical Village)Project Location: Unspecified location
Building Type: Temporary Shelter
Project Descripton: The intent of this design solution is to recast existing building systems into new confi gurations, to awaken hidden potentials of systems under realized. While the context of this competition gives specifi c times and dates for an emergency,....
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Initiative reCOVER

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Initiative reCOVERProject Location: Unspecified location
Building Type: Water treatment, Temporary Shelter, Sanitation/Public Service, Emergency Shelter, …
Project Descripton: Initiative reCOVER is a University of Virginia School of Architecture design/build program established to assist humanitarian aid organizations with disaster relief efforts. From the standpoint of design development and implementation, Initiative....
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1648: survival space structure - a zero energy shelter system

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the hooch dwelling

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the hooch dwellingProject Location: Rincon', Puerto Rico, United States
Building Type: Treehouse, Temporary Shelter
Project Descripton: a single point foundation, pre-fabricated treehouse. Stability maintained with cables to surrounding trees- no permanent foundation.
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Conic Shelter - 1000 sf - up in 48 hours - unskilled crew

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Conic Shelter - 1000 sf - up in 48 hours - unskilled crewProject Location: Anchor Bay, California, United States
Building Type: Temporary Shelter
Project Descripton: Conic Shelter at Burning Man 2004.
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SHRIMP (Sustainable Housing for Refugees via Mass Production)

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SHRIMP (Sustainable Housing for Refugees via Mass Production)Project Location: Unspecified location
Building Type: Emergency Shelter, Homeless Shelter, Residential - Single Family, Temporary Shelter, Transitional Shelter, …
Project Descripton: The SHRIMP (Sustainable Housing for Refugees via Mass Production) is an attempt to bring housing and other relief to large displaced or homeless populations, especially those who have suffered in a natural disaster. Providing shelter to a family of....
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rapidly deployable cold climate temporary enclosure

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rapidly deployable cold climate temporary enclosureProject Location: Unspecified location
Building Type: Emergency Shelter, Homeless Shelter, Residential - Single Family, Temporary Shelter, Transitional Shelter, …
Project Descripton: Rapidly deployable enclosure, this system has been developed in response to: quick temporary construction, cold climates, areas with few local supplies for building (on the scale and time frame of large transitional populations), areas with limited....
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P.L.U.S. System

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P.L.U.S. SystemProject Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Building Type: Emergency Shelter, Homeless Shelter, Residential – 1 BR, Retail – Single Occupancy, Temporary Shelter, …
Project Descripton: We were given an aircraft cargo container in order to transform it into a transportable, personal living unit. We were not allowed to cut into the container however, as it was still property of the airline. The solution was to create a cage that....
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