By Radz R.
At a time of increasingly devastating natural disasters, a new company is working to bring affordable and resilient homes to the public – especially communities in disaster-prone areas.
While housing is a necessary component of attaining a sufficient standard of living, not everyone has ready access to it. This is further magnified in parts of the world experiencing poverty and frequent natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes.
Driven By Real-World Cases
Rodriguez first got the inspiration to develop cost-effective and sustainable shelter after witnessing Haiti in 2010, the same year it was ravaged by a magnitude 7 earthquake.
WORTHYdomes was able to provide more than a hundred of these domes in the Caribbean nation – the houses still standing ten years later, despite the natural disasters that have visited the country since then.
The Shelters of the Future
To achieve these affordable and resilient buildings, WORTHYdomes combine old and new construction technologies, employing sustainable methods to ensure comfort, durability, and environmental sustainability – Earth berm construction, green walls, passive solar designs, and more.
TagsWorthy Domes, Alternative housing
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