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BARRACA de BOLA

Project Location: Capao Redondo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Building Type: Youth Center, Water Delivery, Temporary Shelter, Stadium/Sports Facility, Social Service Centers, …
Project Descripton: Submitted by Team: “Muito Pensadores de Goog” This model answers the design parameters by taking a view that the traditional facility has validity but can be made on a smaller scale to key neighborhood development and micro-business....

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Kigali Model House

Project Location: Kimisange, Kigali, Rwanda
Building Type: Residential - Single Family

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centro de salud verde jiquipilco

Project Location: jiquipilco, estado de méxico, Mexico
Building Type: Health Clinic
Project Descripton: Main goals of the project: To desing, and build a straw bale prototype model for a Health Care Centre. Using local materials and a community workshop in order to build the elements of the project: Ferro cement water tank for rain water....

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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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Las Hormigas Women's Cooperative Kitchen

Project Location: Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Building Type: Restaurant/Café
Project Descripton: Light straw clay building wrap system around existing CMU block walls; new pallet truss roof, new metal rain shield, straw insulation; solar water heater; Watson Wick for kitchen waste water

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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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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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