Interim Presentation

Brief and Setting:
The brief centers around providing emergency housing for a location that has undergone a disaster within the last year. One such place is Haiti in the Dominican Republic, having undergone a 7.0 Richter earthquake leaving a majority of the people living in the city at Port Au Prince homeless often suffering in poor conditions and with a high risk cholera epidemic from the contaminated supply.

Solution:
Temporary housing is required for the now homeless population, with the use of ISO containers compact and easily transportable housing is available. Using a standard 20-foot container it will fit a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, shower, and dining. Use of space saving devices are essential.

Development Process:

Building Needs:

• Plumbing (Bathroom, Shower)
• Electricals (power points, Lights)
• ISO container (Dimensions: 6.058 (W), 2.45(L), 2.591(H))
• Must house at least 2 people
• Forms shouldn't go outside container for stacking and transporting purposes
• Ventilation and windows due to tropical weather and temperature control of housing

Ideas/sketches:

Discussing sizing and dimensions of the ISO container and spacing available, including bathroom ssetup

Cultural decision between Western Style toilets and European toilets, European toilets take less space being placed in the floor but the Western toilets were the more familiar ones to the Haitian community hence the choice of the Western toilet.

 

 

Elevations:

West Side Elevation

North Side Elevation

Roof Side Elevation

South Side Elevation

East Side Elevation

Sections:

East Side Section

North Side Section

Plans:

East Side Dimensioned Elevation

Floor Plan

Tutorial Week 2

1. Home has become an evolved concept as the changes of what is a home is no longer the ideal house. This is because of the defining of a house, it's an idealized form of living in a particular society such as in Australia with the ideal house being a standing house with a pool and backyard. This of course differs from other ideal homes in countries such as Iran, Ethiopia and America.

Home is a person's place of comfort and security, as it complies with Porteous' territorial triad of; security, identity and stimulation. As with the concern of an emergency home "personalization promotes both security and identity" with the importance of a place of living that the client won't feel in danger or untrusting of the housing infrastructure which is an important step to giving people in need a new 'home'

The home is a separation of the public and private spaces in a client's life "anxiety between home habitant and visitor when crossing public and private domains" as when talking about territory and practices between people and they're new homes the forming of communities is important with recovery and aid but the separation of public and private in such small spaces can cause more insecurities and problems for aid work and recovery over the six month period.

Finally the home is a protection from external threats ranging from environmental to people and community, a home creates a retreat for the habitant "The house of everyman is to him as his castle and fortress as well as his defense against injury and violence, as for his repose" as stated by an official court judge showing that the home provides comfort, security and personalizing a new space for displaced dwellers in an emergency situation.

2. Home is a concept mostly defined by the client, this forms from they're experiences and societal expectations towards becoming housed and comforted in they're home

3. Haiti disaster and information:

• The majority of Haiti has been affected by its earthquakes leaving many homeless, shelterless and often unable to eat. They're vulnerable to cholera epidemics and often a great need is towards sanitation, housing and food.
• Haiti is mainly a poverty stricken city, with at least 15,000 living under the poverty line. Forcing many people to live rurally and in the urban streets of Haiti.
• Divisions of spaces was high in small areas, the city was crowded and people lived in small apartments or in home made buildings often causing many problems to sanitation needs and etc.
• A hot and humid climate, in a tropical situation brings variety of weather from dry winds in summer and huge rainstorms during the wet seasons
• Traditions and festivals involve things such as Rara (a peasant carnival), carnivals and hybrid artistic celebrations

4. Issues:

• Climate and ventilation
•   Space usage and functionality
• Bed placement unsure of

5. Universal Design Applicable:
 - Size and space for approach and use

Emergency crate designs

Prescribed texts review

Independent Study:

Understanding Home:
    Concepts:

• Home is a multidimensional concept
• Home as a haven
• Defining home
• Importance of a home

"To understand home we must define it...as a dwelling?...organization?...habitat/environment?:
"home touches so centrally on our lives"
"defining home in other languages...in German it means to lie down or something dear and beloved"
"The house of everyman is to him as his castle and fortress as well as his defense against injury and violence, as for his repose"
"contemporary analysis on privacy, intimacy, domesticity and comfort"

Home the territorial core:
    Concepts:

• 'the three territorial triad' - control of space through personalization and defense of space
• House as activity focus
• Home and journey
• Public and private

"activities in the home distract from outside threats"
"anxiety between home habitant and visitor when crossing public and private domains"
"much less defensible open planning of Western subdivisions"
"personalization promotes both security and identity"
"home is usually identified with a particular physical space"
"Home is the most significant of the many space-time group complexes"
"Home is thus a fixed reference point for the structuring of reality"
"A home may smother an individual who is unable to leave it for considerable periods"

Studio Week 1 task

2.

Earthquakes:

Haiti

Earthquakes occur when a slipping of tectonic plates takes place, the activity causes a releasing of stored energy sending out seismic waves through the crust. This then causes the shaking movement on any object that is on the ground.

 

General effects after an earthquake often include structural damage, landslides, disruption of services and destruction of the crust.

 

 

A major earthquake occurred in 2011 at Haiti in the Dominican republic where a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit, resulting in a death toll of

100,000 - 159,000 with over 250,000 residencies collapsed and 30,000 government buildings destroyed. Due to limited aid led to further rioting, looting and damage due to the populace. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fukashima: 

 

The earthquake  occurring in 2013 in Japan caused mass damage to structures, triggering a tsunami as well as compromising the nuclear facility causing leaks into the pacific ocean leaving traces of nuclear waste. Damages varied from car, housing to government buildings and power failure.

 

Reference: http://www.latimes.com/includes/projects/before-after/japan-tsunami-2013/tsunami_cars_before.jpg

Reference: http://media.indiatimes.in/media/content/2013/Mar/japan_earthquake_1363085660_540x540.jpg

Reference: http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1444907!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/correction-japan-quake.jpg 

 

 

3. The selected location is Haiti suffering from an Earthquake disaster.

4.

 

Similarities:

 - Use if ISO containers for home use and redesigned in use

- Standard shipping size of 20ft containers

-Use in designed homes 

 

 

 

 

 

Differences:

 - Different environments and situations thus different problems to address

-Metal use vs timber

-ISO containers use, Home vs expanded house

- Different designers

 

 

 

 

 

Design Approach:

 

Similarities:

• Home design with the use of ISO containers
• Built for its specific environment
• New uses for standardized shipping containters
• Used in a non-emergency situation

 

Differences:

• Different client/ approaches to environment and setting
• Use of ISO containers in housing

Conclusion:

Use of ISO containers as emergency aid housing does not quite apply in this situation  as these ISO containers are used in the context of a permanent housing however it does fulfill the needs of housing in smaller spaces so some of the design approaches are still applicable. In Haiti the needs are more communal rather than individual requiring large communal showers rooms, bed rooms and etc..
Due to continuing aftershocks from the initial earthquake housing will be need to set up with

 

 Independent Study: