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Circle City

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Circle CityProject 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

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Myanmar Rebuilding AppealProject 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

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Open-Source Bamboo ShelterProject 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

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SurvivorbuildingregenerationProject 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

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Nato High SchoolProject 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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PersonalArk - Low Footprint Houseboats

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PersonalArk - Low Footprint HouseboatsProject 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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Rebuilding Community Block by Block

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Rebuilding Community Block by BlockProject Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Building Type: Residential - Single Family
Project Descripton: "It was a spiritual experience. I put myself in the shoes of the ladies who had lost their house(s). I went outside and just stared at the house(s). To lose everything then to come back to the same area, where two new houses are going up. That is....
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Temporary Schools

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Temporary SchoolsProject Location: Pottuvil, Ampara, Sri Lanka
Building Type: Education Facility - Secondary School, Education Facility - Primary School
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stand together

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stand togetherProject 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

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QuickQuartersProject 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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Myanmar Rebuilding


Architecture for Humanity is raising funds to support reconstruction efforts. Our work will focus on rebuilding clinics, schools, community centers and other critical infrastructure as well as housing. Please help us rebuild communities and lives.

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