The CYPE House by MIRA YUNG
The vision of this project is to design a safe temporary wood house to provide the victims affected by natural disaster with a place to live and with a new life. The CYPE House includes all of the self-sustaining daily essentials such as water supply, lighting and ventilation. Most importantly, it can deployed on short […]
Self-Sufficient Shelter in 5 Minutes
The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes – and why. The Daiwa Lease, a giant in the construction industry of Japan, has presented EDV-01: a module housing for natural disasters that seems to come out of a science fiction movie. The prefabricated units are carried via helicopter or truck and their setup takes just five […]
Soil Decontamination/ Phytoremediation
After man-made chemical or nuclear accidents, soil often remains contaminated with chemical substances that are dangerous to human health. In order to recover contaminated soils, chemicals can be extracted either chemically by acids or biologically by plants. The removal by plants is called, phytoremediation. In chemical cleansing the soil has to be removed and treated […]
Demining
MgM Menschen gegen Minen / People Against Landmines is an NGO working in the field of landmine detection and destruction. Their website provides a thorough insight into the subject, both on political implications and on practical demining methods and new technologies. The existence of landmines in public spaces is one of the cruelest aftermaths of […]
Shelterproject
Transitional settlement: displaced populations gives an extensive, detailed overview of how to implement settlements for displaced populations exclusively; the guidelines don’t comply to reconstruction after conflict or disaster, return to homelands or permanent settlement on new sites. The first section of the guidelines deals with a general overview on the subject. It deals with strategic […]
Building Letters / Font Aid
Font Aid is a project initiated by the SOTA Society of Typographic Aficionados and by Building Letters, in an effort to contribute to the typographic work of designers and to raise money through sales for victims of disasters and people in need. Building Letters is an annual graphic publication whose profits are donated to charity […]
Designed To Help …
British graphic designer firm, iLovedust and their German partner, Die Gestalten have arranged Designed To Help, a book of graphic artwork that will donate sales to Tsunami relief. In the aftermath of the Southeast Asian Tsunami 26/12/04, the two initiators distributed a request to design agencies around the world to hand in graphic designs, illustrations […]
Second Aid Toolkits
During the “Sustainable Design Week“, focused on the subject of, “Design for Disaster“, in 2005 at the “Design Academy Eindhoven”, the Netherlands, a primary question was, “How can victims reorganize their lives after surviving a disaster?” Depending on the aid given by relief agencies containing basic needed to survive, it is often the case that […]
