In November 2013, super-typhoon Haiyan battered the central Philippines and destroyed over four million households—including the NGO Streetlight’s orphanage, office, and study center. A collaborative community effort led by Eriksson Furunes Architecture and Leandro V. Locsin Partners & Boase sprang to life to redesign and build post-disaster structures for Streetlight that were better equipped to weather storms. The design process helped the community heal in the aftermath of Haiyan and took...
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/community-designed-filipino-orphanage-rises-in-the-wake-of-typhoon-disaster
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