Pod Shelters
by TreeHugger on 12. 6.04
Inspired by the Dymaxion vision of TH hero Bucky Fuller, Pod temporary shelters are easy to put together and take apart, contain only a few simple parts, and almost anyone—including those not so good at math—can put them together. They’re great fun in either urban or rural settings, or could be used as emergency shelters. Additionally, Pods utilize an integrated panel design which eliminates the use of separate frame and cover; make air flow and insulation a part of the functional panel design; use low-cost, recycled, and recyclable materials; can produce a variety of structures with a minimum of parts; and are extremely strong, yet lightweight and inexpensive...
Their simple design also makes them easy and fast for potential manufacture in most any major city (which would save on transport energy output). Playa-tried, -tested, and
-approved! Available in a variety of sizes for various different uses. Thanks for the tip, Michele W! $899-5,999 ::The Pod [by MO]
There are a couple of examples of lowcost shelter from the $60 Hexayurt to the $400 Global Village Shelter.
A number of these units will appear (plug, plug) in our upcoming book on humanitarian design.
Cheers
Cameron @ AFH --
Hexayurt = http://mindismoving.org/hexayurt/
-- GV Shelter = http://www.gvshelters.com/news.htm
These look interesting, but the website has one of those phrases which should be taken with a huge amount of suspicion ...
"produced from paper and polypropylene materials which have a percentage of recycled content"
This is completely meaningless, it could be 1% or 50%, and when someone makes a claim like this, then I at least presume its closer to 1%, *and* read any other of their environmental claims a LOT more carefully.
- Mitra
(P.S. Same logic would apply to statements like - "a percentage of profits go to xxx charity")
ha! looks like someone was thinking design at Burning Man. Still, I'm partial to the Yurt:
www.yurts.com
I stayed in them one burn. They don't set up easy: While they can withstand the wind, you can only set them up when the air is reasonably still.