Origami Houses: Tables That Become Shelters When Disaster Strikes

Rory Stott — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 01:00:00 +0000

In the immediate aftermath of an earthquake, the need to provide shelter and privacy for those affected is outranked only by the need for food and water. As such, a lot of effort is now put into planning for disaster: how will shelters be distributed? How can they be built cheaply, in large numbers? The answers to these questions have usually led to a standardized design, distributed to any part of the world in the days after an earthquake strikes.

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Origami Houses: Tables That Become Shelters When Disaster Strikes