Fabulous99.com | The design blog » architecture design http://www.fabulous99.com Fabulous 99 a design blog by Imran Subhani Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:26:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 1 Hour Design Challenge: Emergency Shelters for Haiti http://www.fabulous99.com/2010/02/15/1-hour-design-challenge-emergency-shelters-for-haiti/ http://www.fabulous99.com/2010/02/15/1-hour-design-challenge-emergency-shelters-for-haiti/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:19:22 +0000 Imran Subhani http://www.fabulous99.com/?p=525 1 Hour Design Challenge: Emergency Shelters for Haiti …. before February 28, 2010 at 4PM GMT

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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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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.

Duany’s house for Haiti is small– 8?2? x 8?2? x 19?8?—but can sleep 8. Essential for cost-reduction and ease of distribution—can be packed flat in a package less than two feet thick. It’s designed for quick assembly from a strong, lightweight, and waterproof composite material Duany describes as miraculous. Can this work in Haiti? We hope so. At present, there are at least a million people without homes in the hurricane-battered country.

Rendering courtesy of Jetson Green

This post originally appeared on www.refresheverything.com, as part of GOOD’s collaboration with the Pepsi Refresh Project, a catalyst for world-changing ideas. Find out more about the Refresh campaign, or to submit your own idea today.

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