Shelter

Construction Techniques

• Superadobe

Types of Shelter

Emergency Shelters

• Bamboo and Ferro-cement for emergency shelter
• The Accordian reCover Shelter
• Bags of Shelter

Disaster-Resilient Shelters

• Monolithic Domes
• World Shelters' Rubble to Resource

Hexayurts

• Expanded Rapid Deployment - 3MB - MOV
• Disaster Relief Plywood Hexayurt - 2.7MB - PDF
• Appropedia's Hexayurt Project Page - wiki
• Julia Danger's Hexayurt Videos - 16 YouTube Videos - grab with youtube-dl
• Haxayurt Construction - web
• The Hexayurt: Concept, Design, and Construction - PDF
• Disaster Relief Shelter Design: Hexayurt Shelter Design through Material Selection and Thermal Testing - PDF
• The Physical Aspects of Distributed Infrastructure - PDF
• The Hexayurt in Haiti? - PDF

Organizations

• ShelterBox - Nonprofit providing humanitarian aid in the form of shelter "kits" that include tents, building tools, cookware, solar lights, water purification and educational supplies.

Books

• Earth Building Around the World - 2010
• Earth as a Raw Material - 2010
• Shelters, Shacks and Shanties - 2009
• Building With Earth - 2006
• The Marvelously Muddy - Cobb
• Manual For Building the Rammed Earth Wall
• Cobb Builder's Handbook - 1997
• Building to Resist the Effect of Wind - 1977
• Framing, Sheathing and Insulation - 1973
• Building With Adobe and Stabilized-Earth Blocks - 1972
• Soil-Cement - Its Use in Building - 1964

Sources

• Appropedia
• Archive.org
• Project Gutenburg
• The Hexayurt Project