Instant Housing + Designing for Disaster [Wired]

By archives on Oct. 26, 2007 | Topics: Container Design, Materials, Prefab | 0 Comments

Clean Hub

WIRED has an excellent multimedia presentation on instant, transient, or disaster shelters.  Many of them are made of common or easily movable transportable objects: flat packs, containers, pallets, etc.  Above: Clean Hub by Shelter Architecture; Middle below: DH1 by Gregg Fleishman; Bottom: Pallet House by I-Beam Design.  Enjoy!

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Pallethouse

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