Friday, September 6, 2019

Emergency Shelters

An armchair speculation.

There have been a fair number of emergency shelter concepts developed over the past few years. Wouldn’t it be great to offer a test run of these shelters in affected areas right now? I wonder if it could be coordinated through a nonprofit structured like the pipeline corporations, where the shelter corporations pay a subscription towards future deployment opportunities. A nonprofit structured this way could offer a coordinated proposal to governments, speeding up the approval process and allowing many concepts to be tested at once.

Take for instance Chile’s half houses that allow for future expansion and individualizations.

3D printing is allowing for construction within 24 hours.

Stackable EXO Units claim a two minute deployment each, with a four person team.

IKEA has their design out in the field right now.

I’ve put a playlist together for some of the designs out there, of varying levels of maturity.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZZQlLhzh5g5zXJ6cHaZ5FCW9f-DwSHNb

A thought anyways.