The meaning and plans of shelter are often reduced to a light fabric structure – a tent – that provides the minimum physical protection requirements, ignoring the most important and complex needs in terms of compensating forcibly displaced people who have been deprived of their homes and homelands, and in ridding them of the fears of a new life of displacement and a turbulent and ambiguous future.
The tent is the alternative to the dwelling that the displaced lost due to war or a natural disaster, and it means a lot to him - that is, the dwelling - is the mental memory, his personal identity in its different stages, the culture and the very common and familiar space, resembling the body, to the point that we forget it only to remember it suddenly in times of war and destruction.
In the concept of the physical tent based on the study situation of the three camps (Atmeh-Arsal - Zaatari), the meaning of housing disappears and disappears and is replaced by an emergency shelter unit - the tent - always gives the displaced a sense of loss, emergency, and exile from his home.
The research paper aims to propose a more civilized and humane shelter unit consisting of a more humane structure and construction materials (activating human engineering) in terms of security, home space, basic functional and formal services, and sustainability, such as the idea of a tent that produces energy