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Circle City

Project Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
Building Type: Urban Planning
Project Descripton: Circle City(ies) will be built within Tornado Alley, USA to address the destructive forces of any of the thousands of tornados that strike communities in that area annually. Traditionally, destroyed communities are rebuilt using stick-frame on slab....

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Myanmar Rebuilding Appeal

Project Location: Myanmar
Project Descripton: Cyclone Nargis hit the heart of Myanmar (Burma) on Saturday morning. While the media will focus its attention on the loss of life there will be millions displaced in the coming weeks. Large aid agencies like Oxfam and Care will be knee deep in....

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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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Nato High School

Project Location: Sagnay, Camarines Sur, Philippines
Building Type: Education Facility - Secondary School
Project Descripton: The Nato High School design seeks to remedy the perpetual cycle of destruction and reconstruction by streamlining construction methods through prefabrication. The system proposed is primarily a steel braced frame structure comprised of a kit of....

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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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Sustainable Portable Classroom for Winnsboro High School

Project Location: Winnsboro, Louisiana, United States
Building Type: Education Facility - Secondary School
Project Descripton: Education, community and innovation.

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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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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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