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In 1914, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret designed the Maison Dom-Ino in response to the massive demand for accommodation in the Flanders region, devastated by World War I. The proposal is a completely independent skeleton of the functions, able to support a house. To be manufactured with standardized, highly mechanized and combinable pieces, which would allow a broad organizational freedom of the habitat. The architectural response fits in to a context with shortages of machinery and energy and with a workforce composed mainly of women and youth in need of gainful employment. The surrounding of ruined buildings offer the elements that would make up the enclosure of these reinforced concrete structures, while the rubble is cleaned all over the country. |
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Human conflicts and natural disasters result in displacement of large groups of population. The accommodation of these groups should always be resolved in an urgent manner although the conditions for it are generally hostile or difficult. Shelter Case Studies collects about a hundred cases of post-disaster study, up since 2008 in various parts of the world. This website is an initiative of UN-HABITAT the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, IFRC the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, y UNHCR the UN Refugee Agency. |