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Scandinavian design studio Native Narrative is raising the bar for after-school facilities in the rural Philippines with their recent completion of the Children’s Learning Center in the Island of Leyte’s Village Mas-in. The...

No matter where you live or what you do for a living, there’s always a chance that fate will take a few bad turns, leaving you and your family in need of temporary housing...

Skyshelter.zip is a mobile skyscraper that can be folded and transported to natural disaster zones. Polish designers Damian Granosik, Jakub Kulisa and Piotr Pańczyk envisioned the design as a compact multi-purpose shelter...

Back in 2013, 19 firefighters died in Arizona because their emergency shelters didn't protect them. NASA scientists realized materials in a space project they were working on might be useful, so they teamed up with the U.S....

Back in 2013, 19 firefighters died because their emergency shelters didn't protect them. NASA scientists realized materials in a space project they were working on might be useful, so they teamed up with the U.S. Forest Service...

When disaster strikes, providing shelter for displaced residents or to set up an emergency hospital is often one of the first things needed, and the speed at which that happens is often a matter of life or death...

Solar Relief has developed a Portable Power Supply product that can operate a range of electrical appliances using clean energy. Inventor Trent Small lived through Cyclone Yasi and felt the effects of not having access to...

South Australian startup Humanihut has developed an all-in-one emergency shelter for refugees and disaster victims that can be set up in only five minutes...

Hex House; A rapidly deployable, dignified home There are natural and man-made catastrophic events affecting the living conditions of large population groups...

Hex House; A rapidly deployable, dignified home There are natural and man-made catastrophic events affecting the living conditions of large population groups...

Last week, I completed the first Warmpod and it aims to encourage the distribution of small portable modular emergency structures via teaching folks to build their own units...

Due to natural disasters and conflicts like the one currently taking place in Syria, a growing number of people are in need of smart emergency refugee housing solutions...

Shigeru Ban is renowned for his inventive and courageous architecture that spans from museums to simple huts. While the Pritzker Prize winning architect is often given kudos for his work in developing emergency shelter and...

Just four years before the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, Nader Khalili abandoned his career building fancy high rises and other conventional structures and set off into the desert of Iran on a motorbike to learn more about...

This particular project is based on the idea of evolution, which is why it starts out as a simple "survival module" in order to provide shelter and safety for people displaced by a natural disaster...