High school students design housing for extremely homeless people

Norris Palmer and Austin Ortega high school students had a great idea to solve the homeless problem.

First, this is just the final project of two high school students in Stockton, California. The project is about designing a small, cheap house that can provide shelter for homeless people. But unlike other students' projects, only submitting projects to achieve a passing score, this is just the beginning of 2 children for a bigger one.

Norris Palmer and Austin Ortega, now high school students at Lincoln College of Engineering and Construction. The two have just completed the first model house, named it Habitable Urban Tent (HUT) on May 19 last.

This home is called Habitable Urban Tent (HUT).

This HUT tent is large and nearly 2 meters high. Like the temporary houses that IKEA has built for migrants last year, HUT aims to produce more at a low cost, easy to transport and has a simple installation without the need for other tools. . The model house that 2 Palmer and Ortega set up used metal panels and wooden boards to assemble. But they said, in the future, HUT will use more durable materials such as polyethylense plastic.

The model house that 2 Palmer and Ortega set up used metal panels and wooden boards to assemble.

"The pyramid-shaped house will cut the number of faces around a lot, so there will be no construction materials. And the main purpose of the HUT is to create a private space for users to sleep , so we narrowed the extra space we used to walk and stood in the tent, " Palmer and Ortega said.

Each HUT unit will have a bed and a floor cover, and a sliding window for ventilation.

Although HUT is not as comfortable as a real home or a place to live, its strong point is that it can be easily assembled anywhere and anytime . Moreover, the price is very cheap (the prototype that 2 children made only costs 3000 USD), but the goal for the second model is to use only 1,000 USD. Instructor Jeff Wright answered in an optimistic way: "Your HUT will leave a strong imprint on the homelessness of our community today and tomorrow. I will be an inspiration for everyone to build a better life ".

Currently Palmer and Ortega have opened a website to raise funds, the two need an investor to be able to pay for the design and construction of the next home.