Is the Future of Refugee Housing Permanence?
A growing number of architects are designing for displaced people, prompting a reconsideration of what ostensibly temporary living should look like.
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With the December press release announcing a series of modular tents meant to be utilized as schools, clinics, and emergency shelters for displaced communities, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) included a series of photos. In one, smiling, happy children are sitting at their desks underneath sloping, windsail-like arches, the distinctly modern combination of aluminum frame and taut, white "tent" fabric.
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