shelter

{{Short description|Architectural structure providing protection}}

{{Other uses|Shelter (disambiguation)}}

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File:Ilha Barreta 03.JPG's shelter houses on Barreta Island, Portugal]]

A shelter is an architectural structure or natural formation (or a combination of the two){{Cite web |last=Robinson |first=Abby |date=2021-07-05 |title=Castles, Caves and Rock Shelters |url=https://historyguild.org/castles-caves-and-rock-shelters/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=History Guild |language=en-GB}} providing protection from the local environment.The Handbook Of The SAS And Elite Forces. How The Professionals Fight And Win. Edited by Jon E. Lewis. p.412-Tactics And Techniques, Survival. Robinson Publishing Ltd, 1997. ISBN 1-85487-675-9 A shelter can serve as a home or be provided by a residential institution.{{Cite journal |last=Williams |first=Renee |title=Shelters and the Definition of 'Dwelling' Under the Fair Housing Act |url=https://www.nhlp.org/wp-content/uploads/Shelters-and-the-Definition-of-Dwelling-43-Hous.-L.-Bull.-225-230-31-Nov-Dec-2013.pdf |journal=Housing Law Bulletin |publisher=National Housing Law Project |volume=43 |pages=233}}{{Cite web |date=2014-05-01 |title=Residential institutions |url=https://bulletin.facs.org/2014/05/residential-institutions/ |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons |language=en-US}} It can be understood as both a temporary and a permanent structure.{{Cite journal |last=Dutto |first=Andrea Alberto |title=Shelter Oddity |url=https://sita.uauim.ro/article/10-02-dutto-shelter-oddity |journal=Studies in History and Theory of Architecture |publisher="Ion Mincu" University Press, Bucharest |volume=10 (2022) |pages=25–40}} In the American Counterculture of the 1960s, the concept of "Shelter" intervenes as one of the key concepts of the Whole Earth Catalog, and expresses an alternative to the modes of teaching architecture practiced in American academies.{{Cite journal |last=Dutto |first=Andrea Alberto |title=Shelter Oddity |url=https://sita.uauim.ro/article/10-02-dutto-shelter-oddity |journal=Studies in History and Theory of Architecture |publisher="Ion Mincu" University Press, Bucharest |volume=10 (2022) |pages=25–40}}

In the context of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, shelter holds a crucial position as one of the fundamental human necessities, complementing other physiological imperatives such as the need for "air, water, food, rest, clothing, and reproduction."{{Cite journal |last=McLeod |first=Saul |date=2022-04-04 |title=Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs |url=https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html |journal=Simply Psychology |language=en |access-date=2022-09-25}}