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Shelter Squared Featured in Interior Design’s 20 Big Ideas

20 Big Ideas: Bold Moves Rule

Source: Interior Design

12. Madworkshop Fosters a Solution to the Emergency Housing Crisis

“It’s a humane, efficient solution to emergency housing situations.”

Madworkshop, a nonprofit architecture and design foundation in Los Angeles focusing on social and technological innovation, has fostered a solution for the need for emergency housing. Not just in earthquake-, fire-, and mudslide-prone California, where this project originates, but also globally. Shelter Squared by Madworkshop fellows Jeremy Carman and Jayson Champlain offers eating, sleeping, and lockable storage areas in a 50-square-foot enclosure that can be erected in as little as 15 minutes. Read more