HAITI HOUSE PROTYPICAL CASE STUDY

AWARD WINNING DISASTER-RELIEF HOUSING

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2011 Finalist “Building Back Better Communities Expo” winning prototype of rapid-deployable, high-quality modular home ships its award-winning SANCTA Haiti House, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for a competition sponsored by the Clinton Foundation to support the global relief effort underway there.

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SANCTA’s basic housing units are made of lightweight, earthquake-resistive, steel-clad insulated panels that can be assembled by two installers in as little as 6 hours. units range from approximately 160 to 640 square feet and include basic sleeping quarters and bathroom facilities.

The shell of an Instant-Built House is the standard steel shipping container box used on ocean freighters and railroads. Known as ISO (International Standard Organization) modules, the hollow boxes measure 40 feet long by 8 feet (some stand 8 feet, 8 inches tall). There are 250 million ISO containers in use worldwide with as many as 12.5 million currently sitting unused at ports around the world.

Special thanks to Yamilka Valdés de Puga for being an integral part of the innovation for the ocean container village competition and the prototype that was built in Haiti.

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Rapidly deployable, high-quality modular homes for use in natural disasters, at military installations or any large project that requires immediate housing.