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“All About Shelters” aims to educate the public about designing and constructing shelters. We will provide some tips, topics and talks about spaces, places, and venues where people are at and a lot more about shelters. 

This series will walk us through on the whats, wheres, whens, whos, and the hows in the world of design and construction. It will also touch some processes, applications, and available instruments in regard to designing and constructing vertical structures in any types, kinds, shapes and forms. 

All About Shelters has various virtual platforms, from Blog format to Vlog format to Podcast format. These platforms may help us realize, understand and appreciate that shelters play a vital role in human’s existence because shelters act as one of human’s protection or shield against external, natural and physical elements. 

Thousands of years ago, human shelters are in caves and some uses leaves, branches, trees, and in some occasions they combined it with dried animal skins to form their shelters.

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When humans started to populate the world and needed to expand its territorial boundaries for survival purposes, because of life & family preservations, and hunt for food, among many other reasons, some individuals or groups started to move further away from their original places, especially the younger generations in search for a greener pasture. 

During their search for a new territory, they needed places to rest until they reach their final destination, that would suit them to their new frontier. 

In the absence of caves in areas where they venture, the best shelter that they would have are trees to properly shelter them against harsh environment or predators. Because of these, they were able to innovate a mobile shelter called tent. Tents can be easily assembled and dismantled. Tents have various sizes and shapes and it could easily be carried to their next stations or destinations. This kind of shelter called tent is widely use by nomads before. But today, we can see a number of modern tent designs in urban areas which we may discuss it in our future episode. 

When a new frontier is found, the first agenda of that particular group is to build a more sturdy shelters called houses. Houses are more permanent structures and mostly they are made of indigenous materials that were found in that particular area and some additional materials that they brought in with them from the previous areas where they came from. Some building materials were from plants and trees, others are from muds, clays or stones and other available organic building materials. Some were used independently, some were combined or mixed together with other materials. These make new building materials or new products for building shelters. 

Depending on the capacity of that particular group, the design and construction differs from scenario to scenario. These innovations, new designs, new materials, and new methodology paved the way in having new building materials in the market. 

Shelters started from a singular shelter and the design grew to a multiple shelters, horizontally or vertically, that would provide the housing requirements for the entire citizen of that group or community.

Shelters has developed into many variances from just a private shelters use to a Multi-use shelters. We have shelters for Government uses, Mid places and hotels are designed to shelter transients and traders, Market places and business establishments are for commercial uses and some institutions. 

But sadly, shelters are becoming to be too expensive for typical people to have a descent shelters. A descent typical shelters would eat up a life time savings of a typical family. These are just one of those many reasons why stakeholders like Government sectors, professional sectors, business sectors and private sectors are putting their brains together to come up an offering to the public sectors a formula that would address this never ending challenges about affordable shelter. We will be discussing this in our future episode.

We will be touching some best practices and sensitive scenarios so that the public may be aware on those scenarios and eventually be benefitted from the series and episodes we have at All About Shelters,

The talks for shelters is an interesting subject. There will always be new designs, new products, new methods on how to design and construct shelters and new breed of participants or stakeholders in the build environment. We will be digging those deeply in the upcoming series and episodes of All About Shelter. Anyway, this is just our maiden episode.