PalletPAD

PalletPAD is a third year Architecture Design Build Studio from Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania. Our goal was to design a temporary shelter for a large disaster preparation strategy. The shelter should be able to house a series of actions that would be done in someone's everyday routine.

The shelter was built out of 48x48 pallets, conduit, canvas and metal brackets. It can be constructed, assembled and disassembled with 4-6 people. The design can be easily adjusted to fit pallets 40x40. Assembly time was roughly 2 hours and disassembled time was about an hour. The building process concluded of a series of 36 steps that included the construction of the stairs, two beds, desk, chair, bar and handicap ramp. We could not list all 36 steps but the most important ones are seen below.

Thank you.