Australia-based Andrew Maynard Architects has come up with an innovative concept design for emergency housing – the Airdrop House.
Designed to be transported by a military aircraft, the lightweight spherical house soaks up water and transforms into a self-sufficient, food producing emergency housing unit. With each lightweight housing kit roughly one meter (3 ft) in diameter, the spherical houses are weighted so that when dropped from an airplane they land in an upright position. As soon as the Airdrop Houses hit the water, the polymer frame starts to absorb water and expand in size to roughly seven meters (21ft) in diameter.
The foam housing structure is embedded with food crop seeds that will produce food while providing shading for the temporary housing unit. The Airdrop House is also a cradle to grave design that will breakdown into a fertile crop bed after it is no longer needed.
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Via Treehugger
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