Thursday, February 23, 2006

Designing better shelter

Worldchanging has a very interesting entry on temporary housing shelters, especially for disaster relief activities. Even more than one year after the tsunami, many people on the coastal areas still lack basic shelter and live in apalling conditions. The blog has links to many organizations that are trying to develop innovative solutions to provide temporary shelter. Right from assembling cardboard boxes, to the use of on-site available bamboo sticks to string together foldable tarpulin and ceramics, the possibilities are quite enormous.

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