15 / 2 / 2010
1 Hour Design Challenge: Emergency Shelters for Haiti
1 Hour Design Challenge: Emergency Shelters for Haiti …. before February 28, 2010 at 4PM GMT
This 1 Hour Design Challenge invites designers to create innovative and appropriate pop-up shelter solutions for Haiti. Core77 will donate $500 to Architecture For Humanity’s Haiti Earthquake Support Program in the name of the winner.
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9 / 2 / 2010
A Flatpack Housing Concept for Haiti
Architect Andres Duany, best known for work designing New Urbanist communities (walkable, small-scaled, mixed-use) has shifted gears a bit to create a light, expandable shelter known as the “core house” for Haiti’s homeless. The house, designed to stand up to earthquakes and hurricanes isn’t Duany’s first foray into disaster relief housing: several years ago he helped develop the prefabricated “Katrina Cottage” as an alternative to the widely criticized FEMA trailers.