Modular Shelter Prototype - Modular Shelter is in project of Emergency Housing.There were 3 designers in this project. Our aim is to design a new generation of transitional housing solutions that provide safe and human dignifying living conditions for citizens who have lost their homes in natural disasters.
In design process, we want to explore a new shelter which would be built in different sizes and areas according to local demands and easy to understand and build.
Preferably it will be made of paper.
The shelter life cycle - A shelter goes through many stages. First it is manufactured and stored. When a disaster strikes, the shelters are transported to the disaster area.Then it is distributed to the ones in need.When a family receives a shelter they carry it to the building site, and assemble it. Finally it is recycled which generally can be done in several ways; it can be burnt, used as insulation or construction material in buildings,or left out to decompose by its own.
Idea generation was done by a combination of model building and sketching. The first one was inspired by Mongolian yurts, its wall could be folded which was easy to transport and build. The second idea was inspired by honeycomb, the roof was designed to prevent the accumulation of water. The third idea was more similar with normal builds which is with higher space utilization rate. It was easy to expant as well. After evaluation, the third one was chosen.
Sketches of Modular Shelter - Since the size for shelter was required which was not larger than 220x120x80cm. In order to ensure stable, walls and roofs would not be folded which means they had to be no larger than 220x120cm. However, sqaure for this shelter had to be 12m2.In order to creat enough space with less material,different solutions were discussed.
Modular Shelter Package - The longest dimension of a packed shelter shall be no more than 220cm. It shall be possible to pack shelters onto a 120x80cm Euro pallet. Modular Shelter package include 9 types of modules, instruction and some tools.
Assembling Instruction - The shelter needs to be easy to understand and build. These modules include walls, door, roof, floor etc. they can be assembled by glue and screws.
Color code for assembling - This is one picture of instruction. Different types of modules were marked with colors. when people assemble shelter, they just need to glue together modules which are with the same color.
Different shelters with the same type of modules - The shelters can be connect with other shelters that save space.With more modules, it could offer possibilities to build and update their houses, for instance, hospital, school, information office and church etc. People could also create different interiors as they wished.
Assembling Procedure - A 1:10 prototype was made.
8:10 prototype-interior - This was a photo of 8:10 prototype.
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