temporary shelters
Short-term refuge structures
Temporary shelters are structures meant to provide short-term protection from the elements rather than permanent housing.
The term covers emergency accommodations like tents, tarps, and makeshift structures used after disasters or by people experiencing homelessness: Relief workers set up temporary shelters for flood victims.
It also includes portable or seasonal structures like hunting blinds and construction-site trailers.
- lean-toSimple sloped shelter
- bivouacTemporary military encampment
- pup tentSmall triangular camping shelter
- army tentPortable military housing
- pop-up tentSelf-deploying portable shelter
refugee camp · relief camp · emergency shelter · disaster relief · tent · marquee · yurt · geodesic dome · canopy · igloo · mobile home · barracks · bunker · transitional housing · storm shelter · safe haven · tarpaulin · evacuation
- campstent, tents, camp, campsite, campground
- flood responseflood relief, flood warning, flood control, flood barriers, sandbags
- Kawesqarharpoons, seal hunting
- displaced peoplerefugee, displaced, IDPs, asylum seeker, displaced persons
- winter buildingigloo, igloos, igloo building, ice hotel, ice hotels