Emergency Housing in Romania: Adapted or Specifically Designed
Emergency Housing in Romania: Adapted or Specifically Designed

Summary/Abstract: The housing crisis is one of the most present and discussed topics of the last decades. It has almost become a continuous and ordinary type of crisis. In order to address the problem, in a world more globalized than ever, there is a growing concern to internationalize and standardize solutions for affordable or mass-housing, but the most urgent one – emergency housing – tends to be overlooked. By definition, emergency housing is an immediate but temporary architectural response to a crisis situation where people lose their homes. A crisis is a temporary period of time of intense difficulty, danger and uncertainty. On a larger scale, the loss of housing may be due to exceptional situations such as natural or environmental disasters or political and military conflicts. There are also small-scale situations, in which people belonging to vulnerable or marginalized social groups lose their homes due to financial reasons, legal proceedings or home abandonments in the aftermath of physical or emotional abuse.

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