servant74

Wonderful lines.

Wonderful shed. Reminds me of a large crate shed my grandfather had in the '60s. It was two large wooden shipping crates with the halves facing each other and a 2 to 3' gap between. Overall 9' wide, 12' long and about 6' tall. The top had a tin makeshift roof attached. Inside were all kinds of 'treasures' for a small boy... a small forge, anvil, other smithing tools, and much more. He was to old to use them by that time, but living in the city, I am sure neighbors wouldn't have cared for it if he fired it up either.

Thanks for the walk down memory lane. Great shed. I especially like the pheaux sliding doors!

The British have a 'blow up' concrete fabric building, that if we had air-dropped a few hundred in, with a generator, could be fabric reinforced concrete shelters that when opened could also be sterilized for use as operating rooms. For use as housing, they easily handled 20. A generator to run a fan for a couple of days to hold the dome up is needed, and spraying water on the outside to hydrate the cement mixture that already impregnated the fabric.

http://www.monolithic.com/topics/ecoshells have build on-site and shipable concrete domes that can be built in a couple of days. They can be built by hand but need electricity (fan to hold up the structure to start), cement and re-bar ... sand and rock (recycled crushed old buildings!) can be locally sourced.

One of the major issues with the buildings that were there are based in not using enough cement in the concrete and missing to much re-bar. Both are items that in countries with poor economic infrastructures and/or corruption tend to be 'lacking' when buildings are built.

Even if building codes are in place, it takes both willingness of the regulated parties, and the enforcement agencies to believe and follow the codes, and there to be a way to have builders be responsible for re-building if they did not follow the rules. That goes back to having non-corrupt governing individuals and organizations.

For temporary structures, 'slot a-tab b' type structures with a tarp for so for cover can work for short term. The problem is that short term turns into long term once the volunteer efforts end (a few months). Structures I am thinking of are like:
http://www.shopbottools.com/dansmithwick.htm
http://www.shelter20.com/ and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li7iZ10ros0

You get the idea...

does anyone that has access want to post a short synopsis?