The Weaving A Home project incorporates water collection, solar power generation and solar water heating into the design.
For the past few years the world has seen its share of devastating events and disasters that have displaced millions of people and in a way this has created a movement to design and develop shelters that are mobile, easy to deploy, robust, and even sustainable. Many designers and firms have created their own solutions over the years.
Weaving A Home is a project by architect, artist, and designer Abeer Seikaly and features a lightweight, mobile, and structural fabric that has been crafted into a woven shelter designed to be used in disaster zones.
The woven shelter is made of structural fabric that is both flexible and stretchable. The design is inspired by forms and functions found in nature – like that of the skin of a snake – as well as the art of weaving and its social element. The weave design represents how the shelters help displaced residents weave their lives back together. The description on Seikaly’s website states,
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The Latest on: Shelters For Disaster Zones
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The Latest on: Shelters For Disaster Zones
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ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK IS REALLY TELLING IS THIS IDEA OF WHAT A DISASTER ZONE LOOKS LIKE ... THEY ARE AT A SHELTER. THIS IS THE STORY OF RESILIENCE, ABOUT PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE.
- SC emergency officials prepared for potential hurricane evacuationson July 7, 2022 at 4:12 am
Evacuation zones are based on how far inland storm ... but it is meant to help people with no other way to get to emergency shelters during hurricanes and other severe storms.
- The Best Survival Kit and Emergency Supplies Will Help You Get Through Every Fresh Disaster of 2022on June 21, 2022 at 3:03 pm
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