The Gimme Shelter project is comprised of six temporary, functional and sustainably designed structures at the 350-acre Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philadelphia. Artists, architects and designers submitted their renditions of sustainable shelters and the six winning finalists built their unique shelters at the center in the Spring. The finalists were chosen from over 80 designs submitted by 65 teams from the USA and around the world, including Spain, Lisbon, Korea, and the UK.
The winning designs are available for one-night campouts through the Fall of 2010.
Bambooze!
Rebecca Popowsky & Riggs Skepnek, Philadelphia, PA.
Bambooze was built using straw-bale construction, locally harvested bamboo, and recycled bottles, and the rain runoff from its roof waters a small rain garden.
Bird-Seed Shelter
Julia Molloy & Taka Sarui, New York, NY.
Bird-Seed Shelter is an earthen structure embedded with three spherical spaces that provide shelter, from which native plants will grow.
Firefly
Rashida Ng & Nami Yamamoto, Philadelphia, PA.
Firefly is a pod-like structure covered with a photo-luminescent fabric that glows in the evening after being charged by the sun’s rays.
Rain Sail
Alexa Bosse & Ari Miller, Philadelphia, PA.
Constructed of recycled billboard material, Rain Sail provides sleeping or resting hammocks within a structure that collects rain to power tiny generators that light the structure at night.
Rainshelter
GCArchitects, Gabriela Sanz Rodríguez & Carlos Martínez Mediero, Madrid, Spain.
Rainshelter is a geometrical modular construction created with boards of recycled wood, and is designed to provide interaction with, and shelter from, the elements.
Woodland Canopy
FORM Design Collaborative, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
This basket-woven structure is comprised of bamboo and hemp rope, with a waterproofed hemp canvas canopy stretched across the form to provide a roof.
Visit: www.schuylkillcenter.org/gimmeshelter
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