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A shelter is an architectural structure or natural formation (or a combination of the two) providing protection from the local environment. A shelter can serve as a home or be provided by a residential institution. It can be understood as both a temporary and a permanent structure. In the American Counterculture of the 1960s, the concept of "Shelter" intervenes as one of the key concepts of the Whole Earth Catalog, and expresses an alternative to the modes of teaching architecture practiced in American academies.

In the context of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, shelter holds a crucial position as one of the fundamental human necessities, complementing other physiological imperatives such as the need for air, water, food, rest, clothing, and reproduction."

Types

Forms

• Apartment
• Bivouac shelter
• Blast shelter
• Bunker
• Fallout shelter
• House
• Hut
• Lean-to
• Mia-mia, Indigenous Australian for a temporary shelter
• Quinzhee, a shelter made from a hollow mound of loose snow
• Ramada, a roof with no walls
• Rock shelter
• Tent
• Toguna, a shelter used by the Dogon people in Africa
• Townhouse

Applications

• Air raid shelter
• Animal shelter
• Bothy, public supply shelter in the British Isles
• Bus stop
• Emergency shelter
• Homeless shelter
• Housing unit
• Mountain hut
• Refugee shelter
• Transitional shelter
• Women's shelter

Gallery

• Picnic shelter in Gillette, Wyoming
• Bugac puszta, Hungary, with animal shelter and mudi
• Maasai shelter, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

See also

• List of human habitation forms
• Right to housing

References

1. Robinson, Abby (5 July 2021). "Castles, Caves and Rock Shelters". History Guild. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
2. The Handbook Of The SAS And Elite Forces. How The Professionals Fight And Win. Edited by Jon E. Lewis. p.412-Tactics And Techniques, Survival. Robinson Publishing Ltd, 1997. ISBN 1-85487-675-9
3. Williams, Renee. "Shelters and the Definition of 'Dwelling' Under the Fair Housing Act" (PDF). Housing Law Bulletin. 43. National Housing Law Project: 233.
4. "Residential institutions". Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. 1 May 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
5. Dutto, Andrea Alberto. "Shelter Oddity". Studies in History and Theory of Architecture. 10 (2022). "Ion Mincu" University Press, Bucharest: 25–40.
6. Dutto, Andrea Alberto. "Shelter Oddity". Studies in History and Theory of Architecture. 10 (2022). "Ion Mincu" University Press, Bucharest: 25–40.
7. McLeod, Saul (4 April 2022). "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs". Simply Psychology. Retrieved 25 September 2022.

External links

• Media related to shelters at Wikimedia Commons
• The dictionary definition of shelter at Wiktionary

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Open-air	Beach fale Cabana Chickee Gazebo Palapa Pergola Ramada Toguna
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