Zero Loonie Shelters

The urban landscape is changing. Population density in the downtown core and surrounding pods is on the rise as condominum developers adorn Vancouver with more housing, to bring to reality a sustainable urban-living model. Such sustainable model encourages geographical relocation of resources and population. Despite increased housing availability, homelessness in the city persists. Housing shortages among the poverty-striken produce a city within the sustainable city. Supermarket shopping carts, cardboard boxes, mattresses, discarded materials from the sustainable model become popular shelter-building materials for the invisible urbanites of the alternative model. These images show how city dwellers living in such socio-economic level cope with the basic need for shelter. The idea for this project came from a study that Japanese contemporary artist Kyohei Sakaguchi has conducted on alternative Japanese housing, which Kyohei has appropriately named "Zero Yen House". I have named Vancouver's version "Zero Loonie Shelter".

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