Pallet House Disaster Relief Shelter

http://www.EandHweek.org What could you do with two billion shipping pallets readily available around the globe?

The Design Team of I-Beam imagined using these throwaways to build shelter for people all around the world.

The solution, The Pallet House, has become the inspiration for a new movement in construction - creative re-use of products destined for the landfill or fire-pit that can be used to meet longstanding humanitarian needs right, right now.

In America alone, about four billion board-feet of wood pallets are thrown away every year. The Pallet House provides one of the most inventive and practical solutions for transitional housing today. Wooden shipping pallets provide an inexpensive, readily available, sustainable and highly modular building element that allows for remarkable variations in design.

And the Pallet House easily adapts to most climates and provides longer lasting housing solutions than most other ultra low cost shelters. The Pallet House, and its many variations, have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, El Pais in Spain, La Republica in Italy, and Architecture for Humanity's seminal book "Design Like You Give A Damn."

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