Today, sub-Saharan Africa makes up roughly 16% of the world's population.
According to UN estimates from earlier this August, by 2100 it will make up more than 50%.
Sensing a need for smarter housing, students from a German design school have partnered with Ethiopian architecture students to build three prototype houses in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The homes go up quickly and offer shelter to a group of people who will soon have many more neighbors — check out the designs below.
Each year since 2012, Bauhaus-Weimar students have teamed up with the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development to erect a new house.
Each house employs a different core structure. The first model is called SECU, or Sustainable Emerging City Unit, and cost $8,500 to build.
Its design is meant to be ambitious — as in a three-month build time. It offers over 1,000 square feet of space, spread across two stories, and protects against earthquakes and heavy rains.
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