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Five students at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) won a design contest for their plan to develop tsunami-safe housing in areas struck by the December 2004 disaster. A prototype of their award-winning design is slated to be built in Sri Lanka by November...
According to Addington, who became the team’s advisor for the competition, the design, entitled “The Tsunami Challenge: Outside the Tent,” is a new twist on an old concept: the core...
According to Ho, the structure is five times stronger than regular houses and should help improve the region’s preparedness for another Tsunami...
Aiding the cause, MIT Visiting Scholar Carlo N. Ratti, who had been pursuing his own project to help in the tsunami relief effort, saw the results of the SIGUS competition and suggested to the GSD team that they “join forces...
...year on such air transport, up from $772 million in 2000. In addition, such international agencies as the U.N. and the Red Cross turn to those airlines to get people and supplies into troubled parts of the world, whether conflict zones or areas with natural disasters like the Asian tsunami...