Shelter "Inventions"

This blog contains ideas that have been proposed for family shelters in humanitarian disaster relief. NONE of the solutions in this blog are appropriate to the responses for which they are aimed. In a world where humanitarian relief funds are limited, and there are over 40 million people who have been forced to leave their homes, practical and cost effective family shelter support is required. Emergency shelter should be based on tried and tested local experience.

Friday, 16 April 2010

Rebuild Haiti in 5 days

Lovely graphic - if only it were that simple. These prefabricated shelters only cost upwards from $14,000 (excluding transport) - it would be good to see what you could build with that money using traditional / normal materials...

Thursday, 8 April 2010

Domes again...

Domes. All they need is a cover - that will be made from recycled theatre sets. The designers optimistically say that once they have built it and then imported it, each 21m2 dome will shelter up to 20 children...