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By: Inhabitat » Blog Archive » PREFAB FRIDAY: Global Village Shelters in Aspen

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:58:52 +0000

[...] Serendipitously, while Jill was researching and writing up the Global Village Shelters back home in NY, unbeknownst to her, I was in the midst of constructing two of these shelters with Architecture For Humanity’s Cameron Sinclair, at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Here’s a bit more about my first-hand experience with the lightweight, portable dwellings… Global Village’s fold-up corrugated cardboard shelters are simple to put together. With the late afternoon Rocky Mountain thunderstorms rolling in, time was of the essence and it took only a few minutes to get the walls unfolded and the roof put together. The main challenge was in the rubber strip that has to be slid into a groove between the roof panels to secure them. The tube didn’t slide easily and some MacGyver skills were required. But once the roof was in one piece, it simply needed to be lifted up and set down atop the walls. The inside has one screen window with a plexiglass cover, and no floor. [...]

By: Inhabitat » Blog Archive » PREFAB FRIDAY: Global Village Shelters

Inhabitat » Blog Archive » PREFAB FRIDAY: Global Village Shelters — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:35:40 +0000

[...] This week at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Sarah had a chance to construct two of these with Architecture For Humanity’s Cameron Sinclair. She reports: [...]

By: susan butterworth

susan butterworth — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:24:00 +0000

I’m a design student (mature!) andjust used quote from Cameron Sinclair “many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrails for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just does’nt make sense when more than 15,000 people have lost their lifes……….etc., which, not knowing who he was, fitted the answer (find a quote which is relevant to your work as a designer). So of course I have been sourcing info on him and your right………I want to give a big shout to him too! He is inspirational and I hope his ecological/sustainable messge is listened to by the world’s goverments and helps produce the radical changes in economic and political priorities before the prediction of doomsayers comes true! Going of to get more info on this fatastic man….Susan Butterworth