Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln design and create portable homeless shelters.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Team 3 - Final Design
Team 3's final design was a triangular shaped tent-like structure created out of waterproof tarp and a PVC pipe frame. Here the tarp is laid flat before slipping PVC pipe into sleeves that reinforced the structure. The shelter included pockets on the inside for belongings. The team used kitchen knives as stakes to keep the structure stable.
This blog is documentation of a project currently in progress at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Students are enrolled in the Speculative Drawing section of the Visual Literacy program. Their task is to create a collapsible portable homeless shelter that can withstand the elements. They have to work within a $50 budget.
This assignment was inspired by a project designed by Professor Jan Wampler and lecturer Alan Joslin at MIT School of Architecture and a project named EDAR developed by movie producer Peter Samuelson.
www.edar.org
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