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INDEX:05 COMUNITY -- The Zip-shelter
The Zip-Shelter, sub zero and above, is a rapidly deployable shelter for cold or hot climate conditions, for use by refugees, migrants and for expeditions.
'The benefits of the lessons learned from major disasters are beginning to show. However, there remains one particular sector in which too little progress has been made, and in which many conservative and obsolecent attitudes survive, that is: emergency shelter and shelter after disaster in a more general sense.'
United Nations High Commission for Refugees Previous design proposals for rapid shelter have not been successful on a large scale for the following reasons:
1. they are designed with a military mindset
2. they ignore the basic need for privacy
3. they can't be quickly configured for a cold or hot climate
4. they don't address storage of personal belongings
5. they are not designed for personalisation and expansion by the user
1. Instant shelter designs have not worked because designers
have taken a military camp approach, demanding uniformity and hierarchy and so inhibiting the organic, social process.
Families and comunities are, even under the shock of disaster, self-organizing groups. They need to be next to their damaged or destroyed home, when possible, to protect what is left and
to start sorting and rebuilding quickly.
2. In an extreme situation humans need to be with loved ones, not sharing their intimate space with strangers. Communal meals and medical care are the exception.
3. Twenty-five percent of natural and man-made disasters happen under winter conditions. To survive cold and sub-zero nights without good sleeping bags is not possible in tents. (China, Iran, Italy, Afghanistan, the Balkans etc.). A container of Zip-Shelters can be configured for 'hot or cold climate' deployment in one day.
4. Personal items which could be saved by survivors need to be securely stored and accessed when needed.
5. The inhabitants can personalize and expand the shelter to their needs and location by adding tarps and improvised extentions to cover an animal, a motorbike or an outside kitchen.
Water collection is built into the basic design.
INDEX:05 COMUNITY -- The Zip-shelter
The Zip-Shelter, sub zero and above, is a rapidly deployable shelter for cold or hot climate conditions, for use by refugees, migrants and for expeditions.
'The benefits of the lessons learned from major disasters are beginning to show. However, there remains one particular sector in which too little progress has been made, and in which many conservative and obsolecent attitudes survive, that is: emergency shelter and shelter after disaster in a more general sense.'
United Nations High Commission for Refugees Previous design proposals for rapid shelter have not been successful on a large scale for the following reasons:
1. they are designed with a military mindset
2. they ignore the basic need for privacy
3. they can't be quickly configured for a cold or hot climate
4. they don't address storage of personal belongings
5. they are not designed for personalisation and expansion by the user
1. Instant shelter designs have not worked because designers
have taken a military camp approach, demanding uniformity and hierarchy and so inhibiting the organic, social process.
Families and comunities are, even under the shock of disaster, self-organizing groups. They need to be next to their damaged or destroyed home, when possible, to protect what is left and
to start sorting and rebuilding quickly.
2. In an extreme situation humans need to be with loved ones, not sharing their intimate space with strangers. Communal meals and medical care are the exception.
3. Twenty-five percent of natural and man-made disasters happen under winter conditions. To survive cold and sub-zero nights without good sleeping bags is not possible in tents. (China, Iran, Italy, Afghanistan, the Balkans etc.). A container of Zip-Shelters can be configured for 'hot or cold climate' deployment in one day.
4. Personal items which could be saved by survivors need to be securely stored and accessed when needed.
5. The inhabitants can personalize and expand the shelter to their needs and location by adding tarps and improvised extentions to cover an animal, a motorbike or an outside kitchen.
Water collection is built into the basic design.