Tecnopanel Emergency Shelter

Emergencies demand fast action, but urgency is often wrongly linked with disposable solutions. The Chilean design team framed the emergency shelter as an advance on the permanent reconstruction.

Built from prefabricated timber panels, the shelter can be put up quickly on site. Once the emergency is over, it can be dismantled and its parts become part of the final house.

Seen as a down payment, the shelter can be of better quality than a temporary unit, and it makes the definitive rebuilding easier, since part of the floor area to be delivered is already in use by the family.