The needed elements to provide a temporary shelter are contained in a plastic case. Its shockproof ability and size allows airdrops and road carrying. Once on site, facing medias shooting, the standing advertisements on case provide refund for industrials and investors.
This case is made with shelter’s base and roof. It contains structural stakes and removable panels, opaque or glazed. Adjustable base stands keep the shelter horizontal and insulated from the ground.
The chemical toilet and the returnable food container give autonomy to the victims. Therefore refugee camps are declared obsolete but promiscuity and minimal living areas prompt the reconstruciton.
Building componenets of the kit get recycled. From the case to the swimming pool, the capsule allowed transition from dirt to life. At any times, no one gave a rule in favor of the victims. Each element finds a new function for the city to stand up for its rights…
Architecture is supposed to provide shelter. In early 1999, nowhere was the need for shelter more critical than in the war-torn region of Kosovo. Hundreds of thousands were without a place to live. Their homes in ruins and the infrastructure of the region collapsed, the returning population needed immediate and highly-dispersed temporary housing.
Architecture for Humanity hosted an open competition to design five-year transitional housing for the returning people of Kosovo. The competition's goal was to foster the development of housing methods that would relieve suffering and speed the transition back to a normal way of life. Architects and designers from 30 different countries responded. We received more than 200 designs. From these, a jury selected 10 finalists and 20 notable entries. This proposal from Wonderland Productions of Paris, France was one of those ten finalists.
