A Home Away from Home

Better Shelter, Low Density, Politics and economics, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Architect’s role, Designer’s role, Developing policies, Emergency architecture, Emergency Housing, Empowering society, Global Awareness, Housing, Migration, Mobility, Modular housing, Planetary urbanizations, Political & Economic Approach, Prefab housing, Prefabrication, Project, Shelter, Social contributor, Temporary housing, Territorial Approach, Urban mobility, Urban Paradigms

Better Shelter is a humanitarian innovation project and social enterprise based in Sweden. The project team designs and develops modular temporary shelters for persons displaced by armed conflicts and natural disasters, with the aim of improving their lives by providing them with a safer and more dignified home away from home. The Better Shelter is designed to enable the activities of basic living and offer elementary privacy and security.