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A week before I arrived in Japan a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Hanto region west of Tokyo. Over 300 homes collapsed and almost 2000 other homes were partially destroyed. With no homes, and no money for this poor community, the challenge became to provide a form of shelter that was economical, fast to build and modular. Our team explored plastic bag structures. The plastic bags aggregate into a dome. The inside of the structure is 10 degrees celcius warmer than the outside, it shield moderate winds, and rain does not penetrate the double vault plastic structure.