This just in

I wanted to update my Thinking Inside the Box post with this item I just found. It is a concept project by Kelvin Yong, a designer from Singapore. I don't know anything more about it than I was able to find on this website.

With drastic changes in weather conditions due to global warming, natural calamities disrupting life worldwide have become a common phenomenon nowadays. Addressing the issue, Singapore-based designer Kelvin Yong has devised a prefabricated, modular system he calls the “Metaplate” to provide sturdy and spacious shelter or housing for disaster victims as well as personnel on the ground helping the victims. Designed for medium- to long-term needs, the modular disaster shelter system comes with the possibility to accommodate piping, drainage and living facilities. Using materials like cardboard impregnated with resin to give a certain amount of stiffness, and Baypreg F, the Metaplate offers a comfortable shelter in different weather conditions, unlike the shelters made of shipping containers. To sum up, the Metaplate is sturdy, spacious and can be configured to build a variety of shelters for different purposes.

The idea is certainly solid and shows promise as an answer to a problem that is renewable, reliable and remarkable.