Shelter (building)
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Picnic shelter in Gillette, Wyoming
A shelter is a basic architectural structure or building that provides protection from the local environment. A shelter can also be a home or residential institution.
Having a place of shelter, of safety and of retreat, i.e. a home, is commonly considered a fundamental physiological human need, the foundation from which to develop higher human motivations.
Types[edit]
- Air-raid shelter
- Animal shelter
- Bivouac shelter
- Blast shelter
- Bus shelter
- Emergency shelter
- Fallout shelter
- Homeless shelter
- Hut
- Mia-mia Indigenous Australian for a temporary shelter
- Quinzhee, Slavey for a shelter made from a shaped mound of loose snow that is hollowed, chiefly used for survival in winter
- Refugee shelter
- Rock shelter
- Toguna, a shelter used by the Dogon people in Africa
- Transitional shelter
- Women's shelter
- Bothy
- Ramada
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
Media related to Shelters at Wikimedia Commons
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