Disaster Relief Shelter

The emergency shelter was created for the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. Since 2010 the country of Venezuela has been in a humanitarian crisis started by the poor choices of the country's leaders. The crisis has created a situation where there is extreme poverty due to a minimum wage of $10/month, starvation and crime. Around 90% of Venezuela's population is living in poverty and around two-thirds of the population in the capital, Caracas, are either living in the slums or are homeless.

The emergency shelters would provide affordable housing, that is self-sufficient, to the homeless and those in poverty. The shelters are designed to be self-sufficient and sustainable by having a rain catchment system integrated into the design as well as a trombe wall system that naturally harvests heat.