Shelter 2.0

Over one million people will go to sleep this year without proper shelter, and in the wake of our country's current economic situation and the continual growth of tent cities here in America, it is the mission of Shelter 2.0 that everyone should have the right to a roof over their head and a floor under their feet. Shelter 2.0 is both affordable and easily assembled without any prior construction experience or the use of power tools, other than a cordless drill, making it easy and safe for a volunteer workforce. The shelters are easily enlarged by adding to either end since there are very few parts that are different. You can ship some ShopBots and a couple of truckloads of plywood and tarps and have an instant shelter factory on site, or more practically cut them all over the world in a distributed network of Fabbers.

CNC files and instructions are available under a Creative Commons License to make your own Shelter 2.0

A 3d model of the Shelter with the proposed new endwall panels is in the Sketchup 3dWarehouse. Files for the Endwall panels have been created and cut and will be added to the files section as soon as a Shelter can be assembled and they can tested.

NEWS: Robert and the Shelters have safely arrived in Haiti, locations for these Shelters have been finalized, and assembly will start on Monday. As you can imagine communications are problematic, but we'll update as often as we can.

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