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Architecture without Architects : Car Door

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Architecture without Architects : Car DoorProject Location: Kosovo
Project Descripton: In the aftermath of the conflict in Kosovo this villager found an abandoned car nearby his semi-destroyed home. Taking advantage of the find he used on of the car doors as new entry to his home.
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Transitional Housing Competition

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Transitional Housing CompetitionProject Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Temporary Shelter
Project Descripton:
ADVANTAGES OF THE CONCEPT:

i. ABUNDANCE OF MATERIAL
These containers are readily available worldwide and available in standard sizes and specifications. There is no shortage of these relatively cheap raw material.

ii.....
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Transitional Housing

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Transitional HousingProject Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Transitional Shelter
Project Descripton:
Basically, the transitional house consists of two elements, the wooden frame and air inflated membrane, the wooden skeleton is to be constructed and raised by carpenters and the membrane by the inhabitants themselves ( having in mind that the....
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Paper Loghouse

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Paper LoghouseProject Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Transitional Shelter
Project Descripton:
Paper tube structure can last permanently.

Paper Tube Structure is the structural system composed of hollow cardboard tubes made by recycled paper. PTS has been given the structural permissions from Japanese and German building....
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Do it Yourself!

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Do it Yourself!Project Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Temporary Shelter
Project Descripton:
The needed elements to provide a temporary shelter are contained in a plastic case. Its shockproof ability and size allows airdrops and road carrying. Once on site, facing medias shooting, the standing advertisements on case provide refund for....
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air envelope

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air envelopeProject Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Temporary Shelter
Project Descripton:
Architecture is supposed to provide shelter. In early 1999, nowhere was the need for shelter more critical than in the war-torn region of Kosovo. Hundreds of thousands were without a place to live. Their homes in ruins and the infrastructure of....
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Rubble Makers

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Rubble MakersProject Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Temporary Shelter
Project Descripton:
In addition to the stated objectives within the briefing document and based upon this teams’ experience we have added the following important objectives of the design and project.

1. The manufacture and fabrication of the system must....
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Air Pipe House

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Air Pipe HouseProject Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Transitional Shelter
Project Descripton:
An "Air Pipe" House uses pipes made of synthetic fiber into which compressed air is pumped to form a structural material. Zippers are used to connect the parts thus making it easy for anyone to build this house. Moreover, the modular nature of....
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Shelter as Cultivation

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Shelter as CultivationProject Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Temporary Shelter
Project Descripton:
1.1 Precedent
Considering the recent cases for the refugees (for example, Kobe and Rwanda ), this project attempts to provide wider solution concerning the shelters in the case of Kosovo or to the potential refugees in the future. As....
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Home Is Where The Heart Is

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Home Is Where The Heart IsProject Location: Kosovo
Building Type: Transitional Shelter
Project Descripton:
Home is where the heart is!
A suitcase for people going back home containing a mobile phone, a hammer and a manual explaining how they can use the simple light weight scaffolding materials which are provided by the UN Peacekeeping....
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