When we get older, the cabins of our childhood are left in a corner. When we move from one house, from one valley or from one continent to another, we either have to leave our furniture behind or we have to pay a lot of money to move it.

Shelterhood’s ethos can be synthesised in eight distinct but complementary properties, organised in three principles: Sheltering, Nomadic and Ecological.

Can our children's huts become our chairs and tables when we are adults?

Principles

  • Expats are condemned to a disposable life, surrounded by buy-and-throw, short-lived, cheap objects.

    Can our shelters, our furniture and our rooms move with us, in time and space, from town to town, from generation to generation, adapting to the changing needs and abilities of our lives?

    Faced with all these questions, our response was to create Shelterhood, nomadic and migratory huts for ten generations. Architectures that can be sent worldwide.

    These structures are fun and cheerful, but at the same time frugal and robust, reversible and portable, adaptable and easy to assemble and disassemble as many times as we want.

    Shelterhood is made up of a kit of pieces that do not generate any type of waste because they make the most of all the wood that is processed. They are in bulk and on request.

    Shelterhood is a place and an itinerant condition that we all inhabit. A community of trees and forests in which we continue to live, within small portable habitats for children of all ages.

    Move around Earth with your own shelters keeping you company.

Sheltering

Shelterhood is sheltering.
Shelters smaller than tiny. Frugal, raw and basic, they welcome those who are not looking for status but enduring habitable companions. All these shelters do well to the smallest room and the largest forest. Because even at home you may need some place to go to.

Shelterhood is designed for play.
You can discover new unforeseen configurations.You can create and tell stories with the animaloids, humanoids, huts and furniture. They help you to bond while having a dynamic and intimate interaction with them. For infants, children, parents and grandparents. We adhere to an informal practice that’s been going on for millennia: children building huts.

Shelterhood is polyvalent.
All components share the same geometric grammar commonalities, which ensure that all present and future models can collaborate with each other. Each component has at least two functions and belongs to at least two models, offering multiple configurations, storage and transport possibilities.

Some of the components for infants (size 1) can be reconfigured into shelters for children (size 2) or grown-ups (size 3), radically expanding the versatility of each component. Each model works in synergy with the whole family.

All models can be customised to your specific needs, for you, your school’s community, or your company headquarters. Just get in touch and tell us what you need.

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Nomadic

Shelterhood is reversible.
A result of a long research on DfMADRn (Design for manufacture, assembly, disassembly and reassembly), where the reassembly can be carried through endlessly over a very long period of time.

All components come together by geometry, fabricated with a very precise tolerance to make the process smooth and easy and yet get a strong structure. As no nails, screws or glue are involved, you can put together and dismantle them daily in just a few seconds, freeing up space and time. It takes the same time to disassemble a chair than to move it aside.

Shelterhood is traveling.
Built to move. You and your kin can take them with you wherever you lay your head. Light, minimal and reusable flat packaging that is the size of an europallet. From now on, it is easy and cheap to take your furniture with you when you move from place to place, and from generation to generation. For foreigners, strangers and migrants, who know it’s ok to feel out of place. A shelter is closer to a song than to a building.

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Ecological

Shelterhood produces no waste.
Our research on nesting design principles allows us a radical material optimisation, making the most of each board, therefore minimising waste: no plywood useless offcuts, no wasted routing time. Most parts share one cut, maximising each bid life, accelerating the cutting process up.

The biggest offcuts become gifts for you, so you get much more for the same price. In size 1 models, these offcuts are toys. In size 2, homeware. In size 3, kitchenware or office goods. The 0.8% of material waste in each board is basically sawdust, that we use to warm our workshop up in winter.

Shelterhood is in bulk.
We only make on demand. The lack of stocks allow us to be more agile. We have all the necessary plywood boards with us anyway, so each order can be ready to be sent to you in no more than two weeks.

All designs have an equivalent CNC routing time, so we can offer in bulk pricing, by the board.

Shelterhood is for ten generations.
We develop and implement a planned endurance policy. All our models and components are made to last, and are very hard to break.Ageing with you, they allow time’s patina, that will slowly change the color of wood, and welcome all the traces of use during their very long life. Designed for ten generations, so that each model becomes part of a timeless family legacy, a nomadic heritage for your kin.

All our wood comes from responsibly-managed FSC forests, where no more trees are felled than the forest can reproduce naturally.

Even though we constantly keep refining each component and model, the joints geometries remain, so that you can always get replacement parts if you eventually need them in the far future.

Built in play