Shelter (building)
A shelter is a basic architectural structure or building that provides protection from the local environment.
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Fishermen's shelter houses on Barreta Island, Portugal.
Picnic shelter in Gillette, Wyoming
Bugac puszta, Hungary, with animal shelter and mudi
Maasai shelter, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
Having a place of shelter, of safety and of retreat, i.e. a home, is commonly considered a fundamental physiological human need, the foundation from which to develop higher human motivations.
Types
- Air-raid shelter
- Animal shelter
- Bivouac shelter
- Blast shelter
- Bus shelter
- Emergency shelter
- Fallout shelter
- Homeless shelter
- Hut
- Mia-mia Indigenous Australian for a temporary shelter
- Quinzhee, Slavey for a shelter made from a shaped mound of loose snow that is hollowed, chiefly used for survival in winter
- Refugee shelter
- Rock shelter
- Toguna, a shelter used by the Dogon people in Africa
- Transitional shelter
- Women's shelter
- Bothy
- Ramada
- Alanas home (shelter)
References
See also
- List of human habitation forms
- Hut (dwelling)
- Right to housing
- Tent
External links
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