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.
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain - ORCID: 0009-0007-5920-7654
Titolo del capitolo
Emergency Shelter as Heritage: Temporary Dwellings as Testimony to Historic Dramas
Autori
Dania M.H. Dahadha
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.126
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion
Sottotitolo del libro
14th International Congress Barcelona-Girona, 4-7 November
Curatori
Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-1113-0
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-1112-3
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ReUso