When hostilities in the region ended, three quarters of a million people or more spread out to towns, villages and farms all over Kosovo. Once te refuges returned, they faced a multitude of conditions that made normal living impossible. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that 40 to 50% of the houses in the war-torn region were reduced to rubble. Mines and booby traps were widespread. Food was in short supply, and water systems were often either destroyed or poisoned, and electricity was unavailable in most places. The immediate challenge was to shelter families until they could make their old homes habitable.
As a result of the competition and the publicity it generated, prototypes of five competition entries were built.
Humanitarian Projects
- Rebuilding After the Earthquake in Bam, Iraq ->
- Designing Mobile HIV/AIDS Clinics in Africa ->
- Tsunami Reconstruction->
