casa de pallets BUENISIMA

Prototype built for Prince Charles Royal
Gardens in conjunction with IBM, The Financial Times, and The Earth
Awards. – LONDON, UK. 2010

This shelter was designed for refugees
in Kosovo, back in 2006. Now it is being developed by i-beam design for
use as inexpensive and efficient low-cost housing not only for people
displaced by natural disasters but also as a solution for affordable
pre-fab housing. In most cases in a disaster relief effort, many of the
pallets will arrive as part of the transportation of food and materials;
so the basic materials are there already. The shelters can be built by
hand at a rate of 500-600 pallets per day. One transitional shelter
measuring 10’ x 20’ would take 80 pallets to build and cost
approximately $500.