SHELL-TER - design21 ShelterMe Competition for emergency shelter

Jason Vigneri-Beane <jcvb@splitstudio.com>

Project Statement

SHELL-TER proposes an approach to the problem of a temporary shelter that is based on combinatorial responses to different scenarios. The project consists of a basic set of SHELL-components that are programmatically individuated in order to address:

1) different environmental conditions through the envelope (ex: heat, cold, wet, dry, light, dark, insect-prone, flooded)

2) different occupancy needs through shell-based amenities (ex: sitting, sleeping, storing, drinking, working, ventilation)

3) different modes of basic natural resource collection (ex: water-catchment and filtration, baseline solar energy, air-flow)

The SHELL-components are intended to be mass-produced, lightweight, stackable, and scaled to an individualÕs ability to handle them. When a single bay is assembled the interior space it defines is based on a 3Õ x 7Õ floor plate and an 8Õ floor to ceiling height. When multiple components are arrayed to construct a bay and multiple bays are arrayed to construct a shelter a high number of combinatorial responses, scales of occupancy, and performative potentials become possible.