Shigeru Ban Comes to Japan’s Rescue With Multistorey Shipping Container Housing

Displaced victims need fast solutions when disasters strike, which is why <a href="http://www.shigerubanarchitects.com/">Shigeru Ban Architects</a> has developed a housing solution that can be put together at breakneck pace. Made up of several reclaimed shipping containers, the three storey high apartment complex will provide 188 <a href="http://inhabitat.com/football-legacy-center-in-santa-cruz-brazil-raises-awareness-of-homelessness/">temporary homes to homeless</a> Japanese in Onagawa in the Miyagi prefecture.

Bringing housing to a disaster area is always a challenge.

The terrain is rarely level, making swift action hard.

Plus it takes time to build structures that can provide shelter to victims of any given disaster.

Shigeru Ban has developed a multi-storey solution

That will provide 188 homes to Onagawa in the Miyagi prefecture.

Already used shipping containers are stacked on top of one another in a checkerboard pattern.

This arrangement creates space between the houses so that the overall complex is not so suffocating.