{"id":7844,"date":"2017-09-16T23:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2021-01-12T07:58:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T07:58:42","slug":"hex-houses-hurricane-victims-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/16\/hex-houses-hurricane-victims-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Hex Houses for Hurricane Victims and Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7865\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/hex-house_1505342920754_10891900_ver1.0-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Hex House\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/hex-house_1505342920754_10891900_ver1.0-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/hex-house_1505342920754_10891900_ver1.0-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/hex-house_1505342920754_10891900_ver1.0-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/10\/hex-house_1505342920754_10891900_ver1.0.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Builders work in Murphy Square Park to complete the &#8220;Hex House&#8221; model. Photo: Kare 11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This fall&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize Forum showcased the innovative &#8220;Hex House,&#8221; a pop-up emergency shelter created to help respond\u00a0to refugee and natural disaster housing crises. As part of Augsburg University&#8217;s continued commitment to social justice and technology, this six-sided, 510 square-foot prototype\u00a0was\u00a0constructed and on display at Murphy\u00a0Square throughout the\u00a02017 Nobel Peace Prize\u00a0Forum. The tiny houses can be packed in a kit, shipped flat, and\u00a0assembled with\u00a0tools and instructions, much like an IKEA design.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See the stories\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/finance-commerce.com\/2017\/11\/architects-create-a-tiny-house-for-a-big-problem\/\">Finance &amp; Commerce and<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/hex-houses-designed-to-help-refugees\/89-474566108\">KARE 11.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize Forum showcased the innovative &#8220;Hex House,&#8221; a pop-up emergency shelter created to help respond\u00a0to refugee and natural disaster housing crises. As part of Augsburg University&#8217;s continued commitment to social justice and technology, this six-sided, 510 square-foot prototype\u00a0was\u00a0constructed and on display at Murphy\u00a0Square throughout the\u00a02017 Nobel Peace Prize\u00a0Forum. The tiny houses &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3227,1627,2125,2419,2692],"class_list":["post-7844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-kare-11","tag-kstp","tag-nobel-peace-prize-forum","tag-refugees","tag-star-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10372,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions\/10372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}