Shelter

In the context of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, shelter holds a crucial position as one of the fundamental human necessities, complementing other physiological needs such as air, water, food, clothing, sleep, and reproduction.

Types

Forms

• Apartment
• Bivouac shelter
• Blast shelter
• Bunker
• Fallout shelter
• House
• 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
• Tent
• Toguna, a shelter used by the Dogon people in Africa
• Townhouse
• Tree house

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