Bauhaus-Universität Weimar — Resources to solve the shelter and housing crisis in area affected by natural or man-made disasters. Some Bauhaus-Universität Weimar researchers have been testing with ways to convert shipping containers into shelters or alternative housing units specially in the the hurricane-prone Caribbean, where a surplus of ISO containers boxes are storage without us, abandoned in this countries affected by the natural catastrophes. Kristina Hoffmann, a research associate in the Richard Moreta from the Center for European Urban Studies Center and Ph.D. student in planning, design and the built environment; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Nentwig, faculty of Architecture, collaborated on the “Green Container”, working to develop a method to convert the shipping containers into shelters and alternative houses. The concept idea was motivated by housing crises that have followed by the earthquake that shock Haiti in January 12th of 2010. Plus the amount of homeless product of the devastated hurricanes after-effects . Cargo containers would convene those needs in an earthquake zone and hurricane effects too. “Since cargo container’s monolith construction are also very good in seismic zones and exceed structural code in Germany and any country in the world,” Moreta said. “They have also been used in other countries as emergency shelters in the case of earthquakes. As the “green Container” Project develops this will positively be an area that we integrate. With a few …

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