Bauhaus-Universität Weimar — Resources to solve the shelter and housing crisis in area affected by natural or man-made disasters.
Some Bauhaus-Universität Weimar researchers have been testing with ways to convert shipping containers into shelters or alternative housing units specially in the the hurricane-prone Caribbean, where a surplus of ISO containers boxes are storage without us, abandoned in this countries affected by the natural catastrophes.
Kristina Hoffmann, a research associate in the Richard Moreta from the Center for European Urban Studies Center and Ph.D. student in planning, design and the built environment; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Nentwig, faculty of Architecture, collaborated on the "Green Container", working to develop a method to convert the shipping containers into shelters and alternative houses.
The concept idea was motivated by housing crises that have followed by the earthquake that shock Haiti in January 12th of 2010. Plus the amount of homeless product of the devastated hurricanes after-effects . Cargo containers would convene those needs in an earthquake zone and hurricane effects too.
"Since cargo container's monolith construction are also very good in seismic zones and exceed structural code in Germany and any country in the world," Moreta said. "They have also been used in other countries as emergency shelters in the case of earthquakes. As the "green Container" Project develops this will positively be an area that we integrate. With a few simple cuts, a cargo container can be turned into something that is livable and opens to the site."
A group of student of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will experiment a way to put homeless people affected in this natural catastrophes in emergency shelters or housing units that could be well-built and safe on a stable site. Mobilizing families back on their own land rapidly is key to the idea. People displaced by catastrophe often do not return to their permanent homes for years, if ever, but the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar researchers are looking for strategies to implement the "Green Container" Project as quickly as possible, ideally having a modified container on site within two weeks.
Many Caribbean countries import more containers than they export, which leads to the surplus of containers in those nations.
The project has different goals:
Provide adequate housing for the homeless population affected by the natural catastrophes.
To recycling the empty cargo containers that are in the ports abandoned by the companies that will no justify its return to the port of origin due the high cost in transportation of empty containers due the lock of export by the countries affected by the catastrophes.
Parallel to the architecture proposal; We will develop a methodology for addressing systemic problems that affect natural disaster-prone nations. The international organizations involved in the post-earthquake reconstruction effort in the case of development counties do not have efficient means to coordinate, validate, and synchronize the relief efforts, or to integrate non-federal stakeholders into the planning process.
The methodology will combine case study and comparative analysis methods to examine the local operational planning practices and gain insights into how international organizations undertake emergency planning that can be scalable to natural disaster-prone nations.
The program also include a section of analyzing the cycles of natural disasters by looking at the incidents through a data of meteorologist facts and a understanding of the logistic of how the cargo containers will be available on site and ultimately coordinating a flow of container supplies worldwide.
The final goals of the program will be to construct a prototype of a shelter or cargo container home (Construction period: two semesters) by the students of the program in coordination with a team of technical expert of the construction industry, Wind power, solar power as others infrastructure industries. The prototype will be in exhibition at the campus of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, as reference for the units to be build in the areas affected by catastrophes. In its interiors we will have a exhibition of all the urban strategy studies that we will development in the course of the semesters agree with the diversity of the natural catastrophes and methodologies to implements.
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