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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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Sustainable Portable Classroom, Winnsboro High School - The Learning Kit, Team 6 - Drexel University Design Charrette

Project Location: Wiinsboro, Franklin Parish, Louisiana, United States
Building Type: Education Facility - Secondary School
Project Descripton: The project investigates the idea that portable classrooms can not only function in today's school environment but facilitate healthy, sustainable life styles for students. The use of a modular system allows the project to be quickly constructed....

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Play Around for Space Unbound

Project Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Building Type: Education Facility - Primary School
Project Descripton: Many students in West Philadelphia currently attend school in portable classrooms that are overcrowded, unsanitary, poorly tempered, poorly lit, and damp. After speaking with Philadelphia students and teachers, our team truly believes that a....

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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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Sandhaimedu Classroom

Project Location: Sandhaimedu Village, Tamil Nadu, India
Building Type: Youth Center
Project Descripton: A small building to house a tuition and youth group programme for tribal villages in Tamil Nadu, South India. Passive ventilation and large overhangs help the building to stay cool in this hot climate and locally available / re-used materials are....

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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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Djuma Bush House

Project Location: Hoedspruit, South Africa, Africa & Arab States
Project Descripton: The house is situated in a private game reserve in the Sabi Reserve in Mpumalanga. The brief was for an extended family as their holiday house. The house was designed with a communal living space and separate sleeping accommodation, connected via....

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Manichira Child-Centred Recreational Park

Project Location: Sultan Bathery, Kerala, India

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Teardrop

Project Location: Gulf Coast & South America, North America
Building Type: Transitional Shelter
Project Descripton: Reconditioned pallet racking (available in San Salvador) is engineered and rated for load capacity, designed for flexibility and adapted for efficiency. Reconditioned “TEARDROP” racks are repurposed here for humans. The advantages are, a very....

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