Posted on 01/27/2017 3:28:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A flat-pack refugee shelter developed by Ikea and the United Nations has been named the best design of 2016.
Awarded the Beazley Design of the Year award, presented by the Design Museum in London, the modular Better Shelter is made from recyclable plastic, comprises only 68 components, and can be assembled in as few as four hours.
Each structure is large enough to house a family of five, and includes a solar panel to power lights and charge devices. Since production started in 2015, 16,000 units have been delivered to countries around the world including Iraq, Djibouti, Greece and Niger, to be used as homes, temporary clinics and offices....
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No they include an Allah wrench.
They’re watching cartoons at noon? Shouldn’t the father be working? (The kids look uninterested, only the adults are watching.)
Btw, it’s a shed with ventilation.
Yes, but the kit’s undoubtedly five little (metric) dowel rods short of the number you need to construct it. And the instructions are in Swedish. Other than that it’s good to go.
Good thing they put the level on that tv.
If it was tipped to one side, the show would run out onto the floor.
And what the heck are they watching? Wake up exercises with the terrorists?
Darn it! I wish I had thought of that!
Looks like it also comes with a prayer rug.
You win the internet right there!
And in deference to the great American sport it’s called “Hutt One”.
Send a thousand to Oahu, help the homeless.
Omigod, first thing I thought of when I looked at him.
What’s playing on the TV?
I wonder how well they’ll hold up. I’d think either a Texas hail storm or a Texas wind storm would make short work of them.
Oh dang. I thought the same thing. But then it does look like an inbred moslem family.
You may be onto something there.
:) You’re quick.
Keep clock in original packaging, you can always return it to Ikea.
...developed by Ikea and the United Nations....
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IOW, developed with our money.
Hey, I don’t mind, as long as they are living in them there and not here.
According to IKEA, they can start raping after just 4 hours of assembly.
Can they wait that long?
“Devices” can be had dirt cheap. iPhone 4, $60. Android, $19. Cheaper if you look.
An assembled version of this on a plot of land in San Francisco would fetch about $1.2 million.
True. I was on a somewhat rural island in the South Pacific last May and there were two cell phone companies that provided service there. even remote villages had service, though I’d guess it was more for necessities and emergencies rather than checking facebook or some other inane usage.
Landlines are often viewed as a 20th Century relic.
I don’t want to look. Aside from FR and a flip-phone, I don’t do ‘technology.’
I don’t have cable or dish. None of that stuff interests me.
Books. Nature. Family. My Farm. My Garden. Martinis.
Entertainment enough! ;)
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