"As supplies come in from throughout the world, the shipping pallets for those supplies can be erected to make walls, ceilings, and floors. By covering these structures in locally-sourced finishing materials it is possible to create a quality shelter that will stand long enough for families to build permanent housing."
It's another structure built out of shipping pallets! I Beam's sustainable emergency center was originally designed as temporary housing for refugees of the Baltic War, but is now being considered as a solution to the problem of housing people displaced by natural disaster, plagues, famine, political/economic strife, or war.
[PS is anyone else wondering what the heck that awesomeness in the background is?]
(via Inhabitat and I Beam)
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