Creative Shelters

May 23, 2011
Nunavik

Almost nothing! It takes almost nothing for Inuit to build a shelter made of materials that have been raked and assembled by chance. A few boards abandoned on a construction site, windows left aside after renovation work, plywood sheets recovered from the landfill, a door perhaps… They need almost nothing, but should we be surprised? Hadn't their ancestors learned to protect themselves from the elements through an ingenious arrangement of blocks?