Self-Help/Volunteer Construction

casa

Project Location: NYC, NY, United States
Building Type: Homeless Shelter
Project Descripton: casa project: everyone has the right to have a home and cover the basic needs of shelter and food for a healthy life.

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Biloxi Shade Structure

Project Location: Biloxi, Mississippi, United States
Building Type: Public Space/Gathering Space, Landscapes/Parks/Outdoor Spaces
Project Descripton: The Mississippi coast community is rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina with more residents and businesses coming back everyday. It has been quite the struggle to get families back in safe and sustainable homes to rebuild their lives from, but homes....

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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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life container

Project Location: porto, matosinhos, Portugal
Building Type: Transitional Shelter, Temporary Shelter, Emergency Shelter
Project Descripton: competition for a self-sufficient and sustainable mobile village for a nomad community. the goal of the competition was to design a mobile village whose purpose was to travel along a defined itinerary, informing locals about the need to take action....

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Cyclone Nargis Rebuilding in Myanmar

Project Location: Burma (Myanmar)
Project Descripton: Architecture for Humanity has been working with a number of construction professionals in Myanmar and Thailand the to respond to rebuilding after Cyclone Nargis.

We did not enter the country for the first few months as we find that....

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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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[WIND]OW SEAT

Project Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
Building Type: Lighting-Outdoor , Landscapes/Parks/Outdoor Spaces, Cultural Display

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Panelized House Plans, Americus, GA

Project Location: Americus, Georgia, United States
Building Type: Residential – 4+ BR, Residential – 3 BR, Residential - Single Family
Project Descripton: Habitat for Humanity International approached Architecture for Humanity to assist Habitat in finding an architect who could create plans for panelized houses for the Americus, Georgia, affiliate, called New Horizons Habitat. This affiliate often....

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Inexpensive, expandible, community-built School for parched, mudslide-prone hills.

Project Location: Khasauli, Palpa, Nepal
Building Type: Water treatment, Emergency Shelter, Education Facility - Training Center, Education Facility - Secondary School, Education Facility - College/University , …
Project Descripton:

In 1995 community members and local teachers from four villages (Khasauli, Kusum, Bhairabstan, and Deurali) came together and formed the Bhawaani Bhairab Aadarsha Higher Secondary School Management Committee. Its main goal was to open a Higher....

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