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Shelter
Architectural structure providing protection
Architectural structure providing protection
A shelter is an architectural structure or natural formation (or a combination of the two) providing protection from the local environment. A shelter can serve as a home or be provided by a residential institution. It can be understood as both a temporary and a permanent structure. In the American Counterculture of the 1960s, the concept of "Shelter" intervenes as one of the key concepts of the Whole Earth Catalog, and expresses an alternative to the modes of teaching architecture practiced in American academies.
In the context of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, shelter holds a crucial position as one of the fundamental human necessities, complementing other physiological imperatives such as the need for "air, water, food, rest, clothing, and reproduction."
Types
;Forms
- Apartment
- Bivouac shelter
- Blast shelter
- Bunker
- Fallout shelter
- House
- Hut
- Lean-to
- Mia-mia, Indigenous Australian for a temporary shelter
- Quinzhee, a shelter made from a hollow mound of loose snow
- Ramada, a roof with no walls
- Rock shelter
- Shack
- Tent
- Toguna, a shelter used by the Dogon people in Africa
- Townhouse
;Applications
- Air raid shelter
- Animal shelter
- Bothy, public supply shelter in the British Isles
- Bus stop
- Emergency shelter
- Homeless shelter
- Housing unit
- Mountain hut
- Refugee shelter
- Transitional shelter
- Women's shelter
Gallery
|Shelter 6 picnic shelter at Cam-Plex Park in Campbell County, Wyoming.jpg|Picnic shelter in Gillette, Wyoming |Bugac shelter.JPG|Bugac puszta, Hungary, with animal shelter and mudi |Maasai shelter.jpg|Maasai shelter, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
References
References
- Robinson, Abby. (2021-07-05). "Castles, Caves and Rock Shelters".
- The Handbook Of The SAS And Elite Forces. How The Professionals Fight And Win. Edited by Jon E. Lewis. p.412-Tactics And Techniques, Survival. Robinson Publishing Ltd, 1997. ISBN 1-85487-675-9
- Williams, Renee. "Shelters and the Definition of 'Dwelling' Under the Fair Housing Act". National Housing Law Project.
- (2014-05-01). "Residential institutions".
- Dutto, Andrea Alberto. "Shelter Oddity". "Ion Mincu" University Press, Bucharest.
- McLeod, Saul. (2022-04-04). "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs". Simply Psychology.
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