Inflate in case of emergency

Inflate in case of emergency: Generative design of a lightweight mobile high performance emergency shelter via the use of a computational intelligent method

Gonzalez Duarte, Gerardo (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architectural Engineering +Technology)

Turrin, M. (mentor)
Bilow, M. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology

2017-06-29

Every year catastrophic situations such as earthquakes, wind storms, floods, environmental and socio-geopolitical changes periodically affect the living situation of thousands of people around the world.
In order to face such catastrophes the proposed methodology intends to address the need of a rapid design tool for emergency shelters based on the use of pneumatically inflated membranes. The present work employs a computational workflow that integrates a collection of solutions and methods that enable the designer to collaborate with all the parties involved in the plan and design of such constructs.
In the of planning of complex structures like an emergency shelter the responsibility for the designer to integrate not only the technical but social and functional aspects is crucial for the success of the building, In that regard the present work aims to present a cohesive method that incorporates all these aspects.

pneumatic
computational
emergency
shelter
architecture
inflatable
jordan
generative

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Student theses

master thesis

© 2017 Gerardo Gonzalez Duarte