Project Name: Transitional Relief Shelter - Jacmel
Project Type:
5) industrial/product design
6) architecture
Project Mission/Goal:
1) improve the human spirit
3) respond to our growing need for clean water, power, shelter, healthcare, education
4) address humanitarian crises
Project Description:
Founded in Switzerland in 1989, Medair is an internationally focused emergency relief and rehabilitation organization. Medair responds to natural disasters, conflicts that uproot communities, and crises such as drought or disease. Its core competencies are emergency relief – responding rapidly to save lives in a crisis – and rehabilitation – restoring vulnerable communities in the wake of a crisis. Medair’s ability to provide life-saving care is enhanced by flexible multisectoral expertise including health services, water and sanitation, and shelter and infrastructure.
Medair opened an emergency relief program in Jacmel, Haiti, to respond to the devastation of the January, 12, 2010 earthquake. Medair's Shelter/Infrastructure team is providing Jacmel residents, currently living in displacement camps or on the streets, with expert advice and tools to clear rubble from the sites of their former homes. Once the rubble is cleared, Medair will distribute emergency shelters in which residents can live on their own properties. In coming months, the emergency shelters will be converted into more permanent transitional housing that will provide shelter for the mid-term rehabilitation phase in the country.
Medair is raising funds for the purchase of 1,100 sturdy emergency shelters. The shelters, the Series 1100 Transitional Shelter by Worldwide Shelters, are designed to accommodate and sleep six people. Thus, Medair’s intended efforts in Jacmel should reach 6,600 people, roughly the amount currently residing in the larger of the city’s two tent camps—the Pinchinat camp, so called because it occupies the Pinchinat football pitch.
Worldwide Shelters is an internationally focused organization committed to providing high-quality shelters to organizations, governments and individuals who support those afflicted by displacement. Weighing approximately 193kg, the 4.9m by 4.9m Series 1100 Transitional Shelter sleeps six comfortably, has windows, two doors and an interior partition and can be assembled in a few hours. Additionally, the tent frame is designed to be used as the substructure for a more permanent dwelling. Worldwide Shelters' website provides basic information on how to make this transition from “tent to home,” a process that involves building a basic foundation and affixing wall and roofing material onto the frame.
Text from: http://www.medair.org/en/infochanel/news/detail/article/no_place_for_a_baby/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[backPid]=50&cHash=b4411e0160
http://www.worldwideshelters.org/relief-shelters/series-1100-relief-shel...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/haiti/project-jacmel/haiti-tur...
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SVAN-826P5A?OpenDocument
Links and Captions:
http://www.medair.org/en/infochanel/news/detail/article/no_place_for_a_baby/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[backPid]=50&cHash=b4411e0160
http://www.worldwideshelters.org/relief-shelters/series-1100-relief-shel...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/haiti/project-jacmel/haiti-tur...
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SVAN-826P5A?OpenDocument
Project Details:
Location: Jacmel, Haiti
Concept/Lead Architect(s)/Designer(s): Worldwide Shelters
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Year (s): xx to xx
Client: Medair
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Major Funding: Donations to Medair
Cost/Cost per unit: $700 USD
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Nominated by Cameron Sinclair
