A shelter is an architectural structure or natural formation (or a combination of the two) providing protection from the local environment. A shelter can serve as a

home A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or more human occupants, and sometimes various companion animals. Homes provide sheltered spaces, for instance rooms, where domestic activity can be p ...

or be provided by a residential institution. It can be understood as both a temporary and a permanent structure. In the American

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, the concept of "Shelter" intervenes as one of the key concepts of the

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, and expresses an alternative to the modes of teaching architecture practiced in American academies. In the context of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, shelter holds a crucial position as one of the fundamental human necessities, complementing other physiological imperatives such as the need for "air, water, food, rest, clothing, and reproduction."

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Apartment An apartment (American English, Canadian English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), tenement (Scots English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that ...

* Bivouac shelter * Blast shelter * Bunker * Fallout shelter *

House A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air c ...

* Hut * Lean-to * Mia-mia, Indigenous Australian for a temporary shelter * Quinzhee, a shelter made from a hollow mound of loose snow * Ramada, a roof with no walls * Rock shelter *

Shack A shack (or, in some areas, shanty) is a type of small shelter or dwelling, often primitive or rudimentary in design and construction. Unlike huts, shacks are constructed by hand using available materials; however, whereas huts are usually r ...

* Tent * Toguna, a shelter used by the Dogon people in Africa *

Townhouse A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home, is a type of Terraced house, terraced housing. A modern townhouse is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors. In a different British usage, the term originally referred to any type o ...

;Applications * Air raid shelter * Animal shelter * Bothy, public supply shelter in the British Isles * Bus stop * Emergency shelter * Homeless shelter * Housing unit * Mountain hut * Refugee shelter * Transitional shelter * Women's shelter

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