Deployable Multi-Story Settlements For Urban Environments

With: Kristen Little and Maged Senbel

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An efficiently deployable building system used to flexibly maximize space in typically single story informal settlements. The key attributes of the approach are its double height and flexibility, in terms of site-specific adaptability and space saving capabilities. The strategy is locally cohesive in terms of population, economic development and environmental sensitivity with respect to materials use and reuse and potential public health benefits. A scaled prototype is presented as a demonstrable testing environment for assessing the costs, schedule, and technology associated with construction, manufacture, erection, and deployment of kinetic building types in various local situations and environments.