Shelter (building)
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

See also 
 List of human habitation forms
 Right to housing

References

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Buildings and structures by type