Bangaluru, India (AP) – A recently creative brave exhibition in one of India The largest cities show how Smart and cheap methods To help workers escape heat, they acquire traction in a particularly exposed country for maximum climate change temperatures.
Nerralo’s shelter, winner of the design contest in the southern city of Bangaluru, was shown at the 2025 concrete event in late May, along with theatrical performance on heat effects on outdoor workers and exhibitions on heat studies. The organizer Kanishk Kabiraj said that the aim of the exhibition is to increase awareness about how to expose the intense heat health And ways to live in the outdoor workforce in the country. It comes in the middle Convert in India Towards more awareness of climate -related issues in recent years.
“We believe that it is important not only to speak conceptual, but to try to create models and prove the concept,” Cabiraraj said.
Nerral, which means the shadow in Kanada, consists of the most common local language that is spoken in Bangaluru, from a lightweight frame that supports shade, seat and corner slices run by the handicrafts of the fan in which he sits. The shelter costs about $ 175 and made of plastic and metal metal plywood. It weighs about 15 kilograms (33 lbs), the shelter can be installed up to four people on the outer walls, easily dismantled and transported on small cars known as Tuk-Toks.
“This type of shelter will be useful for people like us who work in the open air,” said Madi Juda, 62 -year -old fruit seller. “I sell fruits from my payment car all day. When the atmosphere is really hot, fruits begin to rot and make it difficult to move a lot.”
Naraleu defeated 19 other entrances in a heat design competition for outdoor workers who organized in Bangaluru last year. Ankritya Diggavi, one of the architects behind the design, said she was inspired by speaking and monitoring workers.
“They have caused their temporary measures using materials such as beach umbrellas and tarpaulin cloth,” said Diggafi.
The designers said that the Nerralo shelter can be manufactured from recycled materials and reused by the auto or other companies. They said the design has a large space to be modified according to local needs and available materials.
“We wanted something simple at reasonable and rapid prices,” said Sajar Kandal, one of the designers.
They said they received attention from public and private organizations that want to buy and install these shelters in the city. The Indian Meteorological Department found that the number of severe heat days is increasing in the city, which planning experts say is likely to be due to climate change and rapid urbanization.
With an increasing number of Indian states that design heat and climate adaptation plans, they said that the shelter can work in any exhausting city with low -cost solutions.
Tamanna Dalal, a sustainable sustainable Think Tank policy -based policy, said that the way in which cities in India are built leads to urban heat islands, and parts of cities with higher temperatures higher than the surrounding areas. Dalla added that the shelters that take the local climate factors consider and can be repeated easily “very important” as the heat is exacerbated in the coming years.
India is among the most vulnerable countries in the world that affect climate effects, with Floodsand Heat waves and Hurricanes After resulting from 80,000 deaths and economic losses close to $ 180 billion from 1993 to 2022. According to the International Labor Organization, India will lose up to 34 million jobs due to the increase in heat by 2030.
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He said: “This year’s heat was very bad. I had a rash and pimples. We rest under a tree when we could, but we are driven to work, not for rest. “The shelter is useful, but it is not enough,” he said.
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