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The DISASTER RELIEF-FOLDING POD is an emergency shelter undertaking, envisioned, designed, and now’s being developed, led by a workforce on the agency of Hariri & Hariri Structure D.P.C. in New York Metropolis with a mission to “save human lives” and to create a technologically difficult, ecologically accountable & morally rewarding various shelter for the twenty first Century.
The FOLDING POD is designed to exchange the 18th century-TENTS which are nonetheless presently being utilized by the military for catastrophe reduction on account of climate-change devastations reminiscent of hurricanes, floods, forest fires, famine, earthquakes, wars, and extra. These secure, inexpensive and straightforward to put in shelters might be additionally used for displaced individuals and the homeless attributable to world poverty and wars.
How it will likely be used?This modest, modular, prefabricated FOLDING POD impressed by ORIGAMI, the artwork of paper folding has a hinged body and light-weight sustainable panels on the outside. Its folding to a flat place facilitates straightforward delivery and meeting. In its folded-flat configuration the light-weight Pod matches on a flatbed truck for transportation to any desired location.
A photo voltaic powered transportable generator will unfold these prefabricated pods. With a push of a button in much less than5 minutes, the pod unfolds right into a secure house. The pods are shipped in a flat place and erected with out extra labor and prices for meeting and building. They measure 16 toes lengthy x 8 toes vast x 8 toes excessive and may accommodate a household of 5.
Moreover, it may be configured and expanded with extra Pods into a wide range of liveable mixtures as wanted. The Folding Pods can be utilized to shelter the next:-Folks shedding their properties in Fireplace, Floods, Hurricane, Earthquake, different pure disasters-Displaced individuals on account of struggle -Homeless Folks on account of world Poverty-Medical Amenities in International Pandemics-UN refugee camps-Inexpensive Housing (assembling giant variety of pods).