YMCA Campers Rough It in Style

An ID program to develop camping structures by studying examples from the YMCA of the time resulted in two experimental structures, designed and built by students: a demountable camp shelter to house eight campers and a prefabricated (permanent) camp shelter to house eight campers. Designed with an A-frame (pictured here), the prefabricated (permanent) camp shelter was constructed on a concrete slab with an inside floor space of 16 x 20 feet. The structure includes storage built into the base angles, plywood doors that open at either end of the shelter, and glass fiber screening to keep out insects. In the end, six roof units were built, five of which were built with corrugated aluminum and one with fiberglass.