QBRICK - Empowering a sustainable future for the poor

Status: Design Development
Type: Housing, Masterplan
Size: 2000 m²
Location: Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
Year: 2013
Budget: € 1 mln

About 300,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed during Haiti's biggest earthquake, and 1,3 million people lost everything they had. Around 550.000 Haitians affected by the earthquake continue to live in tent-ghettos and in dangerous, half-collapsed buildings and homes.

Despite the huge human, economic and ecological cost of the disaster, knowledge and technology can be deployed on an industrial scale to transform the rubble into affordable, earthquake-proof accommodations for the victims still living in ghetto-like tent camps. SEE MORE

Credits: Cristina C. Murphy, Andrea Bertassi, Dace Gurecka, Iris Schouwenburg, Anna Vokali with Gerard Steijn (De Mobiele Fabriek)

 

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