Monday, May 7, 2012

Earth Science: Shelter Design for Bad Times




Choose one of the following shelter designs to research and answer the questions below.

A Nomad's Ger
An Eco-Dome
The Uber Shelter
A Micro-Shelter for the Homeless
The Liina Shelter
The Aalto Shelter
Hargadera Refugee Camp
The I-Beam Pallet House
10 More Emergency Shelter Designs

Write a Description of the shelter.

Draw a Picture of it.

Describe the tools required to build it.

What materials are required?

How many people would you need to build one?

Describe the assembly process.

This type of structure would be great to use in the following disaster / refugee situation:

Advantages / good things about this design:

Disadvantages / cautions about this design:

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