Shelter, Sustainability, Poverty and Peace
Greetings,
Discovery that a sustainable future may depend upon shelter for the rural poor is unanticipated and very surprising.
Text and photos were originally segregated in the print version so each could tell the story separately. Photos were placed at the end because they clearly lead to a new phase and need no translation. The web allows for both color and variable page size which simplifies blending of illustrations and text.
This cover, an earlier foreward version, the text and photos were the basis for a presentation at the Innovative Sheltering Symposium, which was hosted by the Netherlands Red Cross and Technical University at Eindhoven, Holland. The symposium was of interest to the international humanitarian community because there is a need for a transitional shelter mode between emergency and return to the normal and socially healthy community in existence before a disaster. Keen insights of those in attendance as well as my own latest cost analysis are incuded in this update.
This work led to surprising insights and economic analysis over a long time. You are about to read brief text that uses plain words to draw profound conclusions. More detailed steps of construction may be found in the complete manual, listed as biological fibers and ferrocement.com roof laboratory.
