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Emergency Shelter as Heritage: Temporary Dwellings as Testimony to Historic Dramas

  • Dania M.H. Dahadha

Can temporary shelter built under humanitarian emergency constitute heritage? This paper argues yes. Emergency shelter testifies to specific historic dramas. When families in Gaza transform standardized shelter through internal subdivisions and gender-separated zones, that transformation testifies to what universal standards cannot accommodate. The paper traces crisis-thinking from Ernst May’s Frankfurt minimum (1926–1928) through Nakagin Capsule (1972) to Sphere Handbook (2018), showing how each crisis produces assumptions about dwelling that become standardized for the next. Preserving these shelters as heritage means preserving testimony to what standards cannot explain: the particularity of actual practice.

  • Keywords:
  • Emergency shelter,
  • Heritage testimony,
  • Humanitarian standards,
  • Minimum dwelling,
  • Architectural genealogy,
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Dania M.H. Dahadha

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain - ORCID: 0009-0007-5920-7654

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Emergency Shelter as Heritage: Temporary Dwellings as Testimony to Historic Dramas

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Dania M.H. Dahadha

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Inglese

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10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.126

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2026

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ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion

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14th International Congress Barcelona-Girona, 4-7 November

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Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas

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