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hey hi..i am doing architecture from India.......my final yr thesis topic goes like 'temporary structures for disaster mitigation'....i am searching for emergency shelters provided during the bhuj earthquake and tsunami(in south-east india) a few yrs back....if anyone has got any matter in that regard .....i would to have a look at it...
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Hello, kruttika
Very interesting topic, if you are doing your undergrad from india, then for the information you require you can get from an NGO - Hunnarshala, Abhiyaan, Setu - all located and operated from Bhuj city. They have been actively participitating in "emergency shelters" - as you named it, in Bhuj earthquake 2001, and Tsunami.
Their actual focus area is on research in traditional building practices and policy making with innovative usage of contextually available techniques and materials.
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It would be good idea to contact the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva. They have quite a number of recent publications on the topic.
Good luck!
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Thanks a lot for your reply guys
@ Akshay
I checked out websites regarding Hunnarshala and Abhiyaan NGOs.......both of the NGOs basically deal with the 'permanent' rehabilitation...... I am looking for Temporary shelters which would come into the picture immediately after a disaster and last for 6-8 months till the permanent rehabilitation is provided.........for my dissertation i wish to target only the first stage of any disaster mitigation program.......there are many NGOs that deal with Permanent rehabilition......i wanted to know if there are any organisations dealing with design and planning of such 'emergency' temporary/demountable shelters........
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hey!! i'm a final yr architecture student and my thesis topic is 'emergency shelters for disaster victims'!! was excited to see another person thinking along the same lines :) we could help each other out.. well .. the info u looking at is not so readily available, u may find ngo's but u'll have to physically go to these places to see wats is being done.. also the complication i'm having is justifying it as an architectural thesis.. juror's may say it is more of a civil/ engi project.. how architecture?..
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If you contact Hunnarshala (or Abhiyan) they could provide you with information about temporary shelters which they did after the earthquake, I have seen them. Only after this they started with permanent housing.
It was a low mud mortar wall (earthquake resistant by it's geometry) covered with a two slope roof, the structure was mostly made of bamboo. Gable was lightweight with bamboo mats. Initialy they were thinking of thatch, but there was not enough available. Then they used roof tiles, which could be re-used for the permanent house. I developed a g.i. wire anchor for the tiles in order to avoid them flying away in case of hight wind. Those shelters were built by the families themselves, which is a good approach.
There were also from other organisations tent type temporaty shelters. The structure were bent hollow steel profils in the form of a parabola and the whole was covered with canvas. Many of these had problems with the canvas cover after one or two years. And the idea to keep the frames for re-use in an other disaster seems not to work out. The erection however was very fast.
In Bhuj, there were rectangular frame structures also made of hollow sections, but all welded together. The infill was with some cement fibre panels. This was rater long lasting and there were attempts to relocate the structure and upgrade it to become permanent. As far as I know, this part was financed by the EU and Hunnarshala could tell you more about it, as they built permanent shelters at this location.
In Pakistan I saw arched pipes as structure covered with corrugated sheets, forming a vault. This was longer lasting than tent type shelters.
It is a pitty that those information gets lost and is not documented with lessons learnt at a central place in order to avoid reinventing the wheel.
I think, one should look at a structure, that could later be used in the permanent house as a reinforcement.
I developed this so that one could have a room with about 10' x 10'x10' as a cube structure, which could be covered in the first step with some plastic foil and could later be upgraded by inserting propper walls and a pernanet roof. It has only one elment as structural member and is either bolted together or is fixed with corner elements. But it needs testing first.
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