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- sockpuppets, on 10/24/2007, -0/+5You'd burn your second house down in an effort to numb the pain from the first one getting torched..
- idean360, on 10/24/2007, -0/+3Paint It Black.
- obxjdt, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2why is this on the front page?!?!?
- cfuse, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2What the hell is wrong with a tent? Don't over complicate a problem.
- Shuk, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2Dugg for Rolling Stones reference in title.
- Urusai, on 10/25/2007, -0/+2Gimme a break, nobody is going to use this stuff. Some pissant government program decided to blow $10k on a study, and some otherwise unemployed artists came up with some ideas. Dollars to be spent on production: nil.
- hexayurt, on 10/25/2007, -0/+2Well, we've got something like 300,000 displaced people in San Diego right now. This is basically Katrina II. I think it's important that we get prepared for stuff like that, and I started a highly successful Free / Open Source project to do just that.
The basic skinny is that you can build a lightweight temporary house for $200 with stuff from Home Depot, build it in two hours with plans you download from the internet, and throw it on a roof rack when the time comes to move. This really works. People do this.
WIRED covers the Hexayurt Project in the article being linked:
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/ ...
And we won a prize from Treehugger about a month ago:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/participat ...
The practical stuff is at http://hexayurt.com and http://disastr.org which is an outline for using a Web 2.0 (i.e. mapping, clustered servers, mobile devices) to organize grass roots responses to the kinds of stuff we're seeing in San Diego right now.
And before anybody gives me crap about this being go-nowhere hippie crap (do I know Digg or what?) make sure to check out the "News & Press" page of http://hexayurt.com - ghostfish, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2The original is at Wired.
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/ ... - FaithclubDotNet, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1Does an RV count as housing?
- Damaso, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1What was wrong with good ol' fashioned carboard refrigerator boxes?
- ezkash, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1Building for disaster is hopeless of course. http://befunt.info
- pr0t0, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1After Katrina, I began to think about a solution to housing people who are displaced after a natural disaster. One thought I had was to create, for a lack of better phrasing, a "temporary city". People would go there temporarily, putting their normal lives on hold until their homes/cities/whatever were rebuilt or at least ready to move back in and help with reconstruction. The city would have to be built with as much self-sufficiency as could be reasonably designed into it. Everyone would still work, only the work would focus on keeping the community going. Power generation (wind, solar), agriculture (hydroponic farming?), education, communications, etc. would all be done by the displaced people.
Of course it wouldn't fit every situation, and the logistical and legal problems would be huge (where is it? how long can you stay? how do you get refugees there?), but I don't believe insurmountable. It would likely be better than not having such a facility and would at least show that there is a plan and a place to go in such an event. I certainly think it would be better than a hundred thousand FEMA trailers. - hexayurt, on 10/24/2007, -0/+0Hm. I think you'll find some of that stuff is a lot more practical and realistic than others. For example, the Global Village Shelter (the cardboard hut) has some number of units in the field - I'm not sure how many, maybe 10,000?
The Hexayurt isn't so far along, but it's FOSS (Free / Open Source Shelter, I guess) so development is a lot more guerilla. - nicholai, on 10/24/2007, -5/+1We should be building housing with hemp so we never have to cut down another forest again.
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