Earthquake Relief Shelter

Chua Hui ShanGermaine Tan

Tan Jia HanOng Yong Siang

Earthquakes

3,500,000 people affected

293,383 houses destroyed

1.5million left homeless

Haiti Earthquake2010

PROCESS OF DISASTER AID

First Aid Phase

Rehabilitation Phase Reconstruction

Phase

What People Want?

Sense of “Home”

Psychological needs

Physiological needs

IssuesToo long to set up

24% Satisfied

96% Weather and Climate conditions

70% just better than a tent

PRELIMINARY STUDIES

Accordian Shelter by Ye Haoyu:- Flatpacked- Easy to set up

PRELIMINARY STUDIES

Works by Shigeru Ban

Ease of Assembly

STRATEGIES

Privacy

Multi-functionality

STRATEGIESFoldable walls with storage space

Compacted for easytransportation

STRATEGIESSense of comfort

Community Space

THANK YOU

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Shelters: A Design Proposal ; YUKSEL, HASIRCI, 2010