Shigeru Ban Architects has released images of their first emergency shelter prototype designed for Nepal. Planned to be built by the end of August, the simple shelter is designed to be easily assembled by almost anyone. Using connecting modular wooden frames (3ft x 7ft or 90cm x 210cm), salvaged rubble bricks are used to infill the wall’s cavities while paper tube trussing supports plastic sheet roofing. This, as Shigeru Ban says, will allow for “quick erection and nearly immediate inhabitation.”
The shelter, a project envisioned through Ban’s humanitarian organization Volunteer Architects Network (VAN), is designed to include windows and doors that will allow the house to be temporary and permanent.
