This shelter was designed for refugees in Kosovo, back in 2006. Now it is being developed by i-beam design for use as inexpensive and efficient low-cost housing not only for people displaced by natural disasters but also as a solution for affordable pre-fab housing. In most cases in a disaster relief effort, many of the pallets will arrive as part of the transportation of food and materials; so the basic materials are there already. The shelters can be built by hand at a rate of 500-600 pallets per day. One transitional shelter measuring 10’ x 20’ would take 80 pallets to build and cost approximately $500.
As much as I would like to live in a yurt, I think this would be a fantastic idea too.
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amazinglyamy reblogged this from unconsumption and added:
This is fab… make the new garden shed out of this idea, me.
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see the plans OR create...DIY Guide for something like this. Side observation, their...
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