Shelter (building)

For other uses, see Shelter (disambiguation).

Fishermen's shelter houses on Barreta Island, Portugal.

Picnic shelter in Gillette, Wyoming

Bugac puszta, Hungary, with animal shelter and mudi

Maasai shelter, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

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

• 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

• List of human habitation forms
• Hut (dwelling)
• Right to

External links

Media related to Shelters at Wikimedia Commons