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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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Survivorbuildingregeneration

Project Location: Unspecified location
Project Descripton: Survivorbuildingregeneration makes earthquake and hurricane proof buildings, basically it is the old balloon frame put together with modern metal wood connectors. It is the wood connectors that make these buildings earthquake and hurricane proof. ....

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survivorbuildingregeneration

Project Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Building Type: Residential – Mixed Development
Project Descripton: Survivorbuildingregeneration is the old balloon frame done with modern metal wood connectors, or metal to metal connectors which makes this type of building earthquake, and hurricane proof, which is the survivor part. The regeneration part is that....

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PersonalArk - Low Footprint Houseboats

Project Location: New York, NY, United States
Building Type: Residential - Single Family
Project Descripton: This is an effort to design very low-footprint houseboats inspired by various traditional waterborne communities in Asia, North America and Europe, using modern materials, designs and construction techniques. In addition to providing an excellent....

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stand together

Project 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

Project 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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Manichira Child-Centred Recreational Park

Project Location: Sultan Bathery, Kerala, India

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Vinayaka Hospital

Project Location: Sultan Bathery, Kerala, India
Building Type: Hospital

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Edakkal Hermitage

Project Location: Wayanad, Kerala, India
Building Type: Landscapes/Parks/Outdoor Spaces, Recreation Facility, Restaurant/Café, Theater (Stage), Toilet Block, …

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Sanand Residence

Project Location: Calicut, Kerala, India
Building Type: Residential – 4+ BR
Project Descripton: The house is designed to hug the sloping hill-side and provide adequate light and ventilation to all the rooms. All roofs are traditional sloping type with adequate climate protection from the harsh summer sun.

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