NEW YORK ARCHITECTS CREATING ‘EXTREME HOUSING’
NEW YORK ARCHITECTS CREATING ‘EXTREME HOUSING’
NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) – Two architects in New York are at work on something that could help people left homeless by incidents like the recent World Trade Center attack: “extreme housing.” It’s pre-fabricated housing that provides emergency shelter for folks who are left without a place to sleep due to natural or man-made disasters. Architect Deborah Gans hasn’t built a prototype yet, but says the house-building kits will include rudimentary bathrooms and kitchens which make them more comfortable than typical emergency housing. She says she can definitely seen the need for the extreme housing amongst people who have been left stranded in Manhattan following the terrorist attack and says the privacy-ensuring housing “...might make the chaos and social stress of these situations easier to bear.”
Thu 09-13-01