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Portable Shelter: Projects, Journals & Ideas

58 Projects 62 Journals 5 Publications 1 Competitions

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Portable shelter encompasses temporary housing solutions that respond to displacement, emergency conditions, and transitional needs. These structures balance practical functionality with thoughtful design to serve vulnerable populations and challenging environments.

The community explores kinetic and modular systems, refugee housing, disaster relief structures, and adaptive reuse approaches. Projects range from computational form-finding for responsive shelters to refined minimal cabins and community-scale temporary settlements.

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UNI Editorial21 works

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Studio Projetos

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The Silk Road Housing

Through the ages, a shelter simply meant protection. Protection which is divided into two main criteria: the first, it needs to be fast and efficient, meets the need for a quick protocol that arises from the earthquake problem, needs to be agile and easy in its assembly. The second, the transformation of the shelter into a permanent home.

massimo

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BAZAAR CITY

A city interconnect by a main core, its polarizing force. In our case the Polar Point is the plot Baghe Somal, an area of cities where people can live and spend their time as a community. Both in emergency and no emergency situations.

Igor

Camp Island

The project is a complex of dormitories with a public function for teenagers who have been left without housing. The idea of the project is to rehabilitate homeless students through socialization and creativity, but at the same time give them protection, a shelter for a normal life and study.

saeid and 2 others

Plugin Housing Challenge

the necessity of providing a shelter has along with basic facilities for its users. It is single or double occupancy unit, typically in urban crowded areas. The interiors of such apartments, units are also complacent with the concept itself and kept flexible enough to have adaptive furniture that reduces the need of more space.

Denis

HOME FOR THE ESCAPED - Transitional Housing for the Rohingya refugees

The experience of becoming homeless is coupled with the experience of losing a sense of place and belonging in this world. The transitional shelters goal is to design a more humane environment that restores dignity and identity to the abandoned Refugees.

ali

Reborn plan for survival competitoin

by analyzing the existing historical buildings of the site, the existing sheds are considered as a good potential for this project. Accordingly, in order to revive the history of Baghshomal, the existing sheds of the site have been used.

Kamila and Marcin

The Gardeners' Shelter

The project's objective is to serve both to the local community and homeless individuals named gardeners. Community gardens located in the entrance area, aim to become a hallmark of the facility. Workshops will be addressed for center guests and local residents.

Shivya and 3 others

Malja Almubaraka (The Blessed Shelter)

The condition of Syria and its habitats has been severe post the destructive war and has left them with no place to live. Therefore, we are proposing plug-in micro housing for their resettlement.This approach will help the survivors with a place to live, also allowing them to alter it as per their requirements.

David and 2 others

Ribbons of Growth

A modular system for expanding social interaction with safe distancing.

seba and Lekshmy

SAIRA: Shared And Individual Response for Action

A natural disaster disrupts people's pursuit of happiness and forces them to restart their lives from scratch. What we need today is a resilience strategy that is not just focused on generating housing stock but looks to empower people to take positive action during any disaster in the future.

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