Shelter (building)

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Fishermen's shelter houses on Barreta Island, Portugal.

Northeast Park Picnic shelter

Bugac puszta, Hungary, with animal shelter and mudi

Maasai shelter, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

A shelter is a basic architectural structure or building that provides cover.

Types

• Air-raid shelter
• Animal shelter
• Bivouac shelter
• Blast shelter
• Bus shelter
• Emergency shelter
• Fallout shelter
• Homeless shelter
• Hut (dwelling)
• Mia-mia Indigenous Australian for a temporary shelter
• Rock shelter
• Toguna, a shelter used by the Dogon people in Africa
• Transitional shelter
• Women's shelter
• Bothy
• Ramada (shelter)

References

See also

• List of human habitation forms
• Hut (dwelling)
• Tent

External links

Media related to Shelters at Wikimedia Commons