Modern Shelter for Urgent Needs and Lasting Recovery.
Give Shelter a Second Meaning
Kumiki delivers reconfigurable, flat-pack structural kits for refugee housing and crisis response. Durable. Dignified. Designed to evolve.
In most refugee settlements, everyone lives in the same prefabricated box.
It’s fast. It’s efficient. But it’s also cold, impersonal, and disempowering — especially for those who’ve lost everything.
Kumiki offers something different:
Structures that can be customized by families themselves
Modular layouts that allow people to choose how they live
Material warmth and aesthetic variety that restore a sense of humanity
The ability to rearrange, upgrade, or personalize their space over time
Because after trauma, the ability to shape your own space — even in small ways — can be a first step toward recovery.
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Kumiki’s humanitarian kits ship flat and can be rapidly assembled with basic tools. Lightweight aluminum and modular wood panels create strong, safe structures in days — not months.
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Kumiki is designed to feel like a home — not a box. With real walls, insulation options, and daylight-friendly frames, each unit respects the dignity of displaced families and frontline workers.
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When camps dissolve, Kumiki doesn’t get discarded. It’s repurposed — as classrooms, kitchens, or storage. Circular by logic. Built for lives that continue.
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The world is entering an age of overlapping crises: war, climate disasters, forced migration.
By 2050, climate change alone may displace 143 million people internally in vulnerable regions—and that’s before accounting for conflict and economic collapse .
Today, over 123 million people are forcibly displaced by conflict and persecution—nearly 1 in 67 people globally .
Most will never return “home.”
They’ll need more than shelter—they’ll need resilience.
Kumiki is built for that future.
Not just an emergency shelter—
A modular, circular system that grows with people, giving them agency, dignity, and continuity—far beyond a roof overhead.