Hand Over
Hand Over is a design and build company, specialized in delivering environment-friendly and cost effective building solutions using earth construction techniques. Our main focus is on providing resilient, affordable and sustainable housing solutions and community buildings for unprivileged communities, by
empowering local community members, students and graduates. The main issues we are addressing
16/09/2025
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28/08/2025
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26/08/2025
Adaptive refugee housing proposal H_arbor presented at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
In a collaboration between and Handover for the 2025 Time Space Existence
Architecture Biennale hosted by the European Cultural Center in Venice we present the adaptive refuge
housing concept H_arbor.
For this year’s biennale themed Repair, Regenerate, Reuse we investigate the process of rebuilding warzones and sheltering displaced refugees.
H_arbor is an earth or rubble based structural
support system for highly adaptable shelter that is used as a standalone or in series to provide the basis
for hardened housing and community space. The H shaped support structure acts as an arbor for formal
and informal additive building elements. To provide robust, long term shelter the concept is based on a modular scheme. Building with earth and
rubble means that the minimal external materials needed can be easily procured and transported to site.
Rammed earth, adobe block, earth-packed rubble, and gabion systems can be utilized based on
practicality. The building can be deconstructed with minimal impact in respect for national refugee
treaties and regional needs.
In the exhibition, we also showcase a video of that explains a step by step of rammed
earth building, along with available samples exhibited. Dakkah is a collaboration between Handover and
Joy Samuel, that enables users to use a kit to build model sized rammed earth walls in order to
understand soil mixture and technique.
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