emergency shelter

Pallet House Transitional Refugee Shelter

Project Location: New York, NY, United States
Building Type: Emergency Shelter
Project Descripton: The Pallet House project was initially conceived as a transitional shelter for the refugees returning to Kosovo after the war. These people needed an immediate alternative to the typical tent solution that could potentially transform into a new....

Global Village Shelters

Project Location: Grenada
Building Type: Emergency Shelter
Project Descripton: In 2004 the island of Grenada was ravaged by Hurricane Ivan. The hurricane caused millions of dollars of damage, decimated 85% of the housing stock and wiped out almost all of the islands main cash crop, nutmeg. With no post-disaster relief plan in....

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