Hasta La Ideas

In the chaos following Hurricane Katrina back in 2005, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s much criticised response strategy resorted to the use of large public buildings, such as the infamous Superdome, and the deployment of 143,000 trailers to temporarily house those displaced by the disaster.

Senior Designer at frog, Michael McDaniel, saw this as a challenge for design. Since then McDaniel has been developing his own holistic system for reaction housing called EXO – something of a stackable modern tepee inspired by the humble Styrofoam cup.

EXO would not only cost a fraction of the price of FEMA’s trailers and cottages but can be transported and deployed quickly and easily – the projects homepage even counts the number of EXO units that could be built by 4 people in the time you spend on the site.

EXO’s homepage is here

(via design mind)

(more…)