Shelters – TimBatchelder

Flexi-legged Shelter

January 22, 2013February 13, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Flexi-legged Shelter can be built from disaster scrap
James Holloway, gizmag.com

With its modestly named Shelter, architecture firm Carter Williamson has thrown its hat into the disaster response emergency housing ring. Here, the emphasis appears to be on flexibility, Shelter having been designed for easy transportation and ra…

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Flexi-legged Shelter can be built from disaster scrap (gizmag.com)
UAD-2 – Duo Flexi or Quad Core? (gearslutz.com)
DIY above ground storm shelters | Points to consider (qualitysmith.com)
Thursday Morning Roundup: Flexi-Discs (sfist.com)

EDV-01 Emergency Pop-Up Shelter

August 22, 2012August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Daiwa House Emergency Disaster Vehicle EDV-01 ... — Daiwa House Emergency Disaster Vehicle EDV-01 at Little Tokyo Design Week in Los Angeles (Photo credit: sielju)

This Emergency Pop-Up Shelter Is Also the Perfect Bachelor Pad.

Shipping container is your new disaster-zone home (news.cnet.com)
EDV-01 Disaster Response Unit (fringetechnology.wordpress.com)
This Emergency Pop-Up Shelter Is Also the Perfect Bachelor Pad (gizmodo.co.uk)
Shipping container is your new disaster-zone home (news.cnet.com)
Ben’s Comments About More Easing (seekingalpha.com)

$100 DIY Shelter for disaster relief and home grown civilization

October 10, 2010October 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Vinay's Hexayurt — Vinay’s Hexayurt (Photo credit: tonx)

$100 DIY Shelter Could Help Homeless Haitians

English: Shows isometric dimensioned plan view... — English: Shows isometric dimensioned plan views of hexayurts, These are inexpensive shelters that can be quickly constructed by taping standard 4×8 foot sheets of waterproof insulating construction material, normally sheets of foil-covered plastic foam insulation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Apocalypse Not: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry About End Times | Wired Science | Wired.com (faktensucher.wordpress.com)
5 Burning Man Projects Changing the Real World (shareable.net)
Hexayurt’s Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace (makezine.com)
Do-It-Yourself Civilization in Hackerspace.gr (makezine.com)
Semantic Responses to Global Disasters (semanticweb.com)
Meaning: Vinay Gupta on the perils and possibilities of the future (onemanandhisblog.com)
Electromagnetic Field 2012 (uclexcites.wordpress.com)