CNN | Architect’s innovative shipping container homes could help solve Puerto Rico’s housing crisis
(CNN) – Puerto Rican architect Carla Gautier Castro stands
overlooking the remains of a home after a string of earthquakes hammered the
town of Yauco, on the southwest of the island.
It’s a painful scene she has seen again and again. It is also the reason she
now dedicates her life to ensuring everyone on the island has a safe dwelling.
The pillars of this concrete house collapsed, crushing three vehicles
underneath. Furniture and personal belongings are strewn around, unreachable,
unsalvageable.
“I’m traumatized,” homeowner Luz María Morales Vargas tells Gautier
Castro. “We’ve lived here for 27 years.” —more—
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