by Lucilla Marvel




Just 3 days after the Hurricane Katrina Disaster, Allegra Fuller Snyder, head of the Buckminster Fuller Institute Emergency Shelter Special Projects Committee alerted the Institute about the possibility of collaborating on the delivery and set up of a Fuller-inspired autonomous shelter unit to Mississippi, to be used as a field office for disaster relief workers. Moving quickly, and mindful of Fuller's words that there can be "emergence through emergency" we decided to raise funds for a ready--to--deliver transitional structure of 750 square feet.