With the amount of natural disasters increasing, it is becoming more urgent to come up with new ideas for temporary housing to shelter the 1000’s of found homeless. The idea of reusing shipping pallets as a building material was originally developed by I-Beam for a Transitional Housing contest aimed at housing refugees in Kosovo. The pallet houses can be easily assembled and disassembled and they can not only serve as temporary houses, but can also be the framework for more permanent housing. One transitional shelter measuring 10′ x 20′ would take 80 pallets to build and cost approximately $500.

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