Nomad Shelters 

During the successive confinements of the Covid 19 pandemic, supply chain ruptures brought building to a near standstill and revealed the extreme fragilities in the global market for industrial building products. This project, 2 Nomad Shelters, on the Vercors Plateau in the village of Villard de Lans seeks to demonstrate the inherent cultural, economic and environmental sustainability of locally sourced, simply transformed bio-sourced and geo-sourced natural building materials. Like Marc-Antoine Laugier’s 1755 "Essay on Architecture", this project is a kind of “primitive hut” which returns to the fundamentals as a way to demonstrate other possible futures.