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Pleasing to the Palette
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.
Article found on green blog Green Updater
2 Responses to “Pleasing to the Palette”
July 25th, 2008 at 1:15 PM
This is really appealing. I hope the organization takes off like Habitat for Humanity.
July 25th, 2008 at 3:06 PM
welcome to archiblog Trish, we’re looking forward to more posts. Great first post, btw, a really interesting concept and good to see this type of work happening.