12.Jul.2010 Providence Journal features C2C and Stack
Environmental reporter Peter Lord has written an article on Containers to Clinics, which has recently sent a Stack-built clinic to Haiti. Lord provides an update from C2C, on the ground in Port-au-Prince.
Lord understands what Stack is all about, when he writes that we
focus on sustainable and innovative construction projects that lower costs by removing the [...]
11.Jun.2010 C2C Ships to Haiti!
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
The staff of Containers to Clinics, the organization that engaged Stack to build a clinic out of two 20′ shipping containers, sent us these photos from Red Hook, Brooklyn, of the clinic getting loaded onto a cargo ship bound for Port-au-Prince.
The ISO containers fit in happily alongside their more utilitarian [...]
22.Jan.2010 Weekly Fuel – 1/22/10
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
First and foremost, two links on the architectural and building science implications of the earthquake in Haiti: The Infrastructurist on why so many buildings collapsed, when the destructive-but-not-catastrophic 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in CA was the same magnitude. Next, Architecture for Humanity lays out a plan for how to rebuild [...]
20.Jan.2010 Containers To Clinics Canopy
by Jay Cox-Chapman, Design Build Assistant
Check out these photos of the Containers to Clinics prototype canopy:
01.Dec.2009 Pictures from the ICA
By Alexander Villagomez, Design Build Assistant
On the night of Monday, November 16th, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston hosted an event for the Containers2Clinics project. Below are pictures taken at the event.
Check out the latest story of C2C’s progress on the “Here and Now” site. The story also features an audio file of the [...]
