This international competition was launched by the International Union of Architects for the 2006-2008 period on the theme of ‘Renewable Energy Sources and Bioclimatic Architecture for Shells’, to shelter people affected by natural disasters.
This was a one-stage international ideas competition.
The competition invited architects to bring together their ideas for the creation of new housing spaces in extreme and extraordinary conditions such as natural disasters, making possible a rapid and efficient settlement for affected people that could be adapted to uncommon geographic, topographic, ecological, social or political contexts.