SEED Emergency Housing Shipping Containers
Promotional momentary remedy for sacrifice of earthuakes and hurricanes, SEED turns unneeded shipping containers into starter homes for exigency situations. The sheme was before underway when the last tragedy hit Haiti, leading the group of Clemson University architecture professors (who’ve been developing it since the devastating Hurricane Katrina) after it to work to implement their plan earlier. The containers are strong enough to repel earthquakes or hurricanes, they make robust instand homes and guarantee few degree of safety from more activity, like aftershocks. More pics and facts afer the jump.
Source: coolhunting
Unmodifies containers has 304 square feet of floor space – that´s the size of many apartments in NYC. The containers are designed for living and would arrive with strategic holes for light and air neither would be outfittet with running water of course a toilet and space for cooking. For generate food quickly and to help jumpstart the gardens all container would come with a 55-gallon drum already filled with plants and dirt. The Carribean has already surplus unused shipping cointainers, because they import moren than export. To transform the containers can be converted in just a few days and cost less than $5,000. Probably it will take another six months before the project will eventually be ready to implement.
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