Urban Shelter Proposal: Design of an Adaptable Community Center as an urban base for empowerment

Urban Shelter Proposal: Design of an Adaptable Community Center as an urban base for empowerment

De Jonge, D.J.

Nottrot, R.J. (mentor)
Vollebregt, A.G. (mentor)
Van Dooren, E.J.G.C. (mentor)

Architecture

Architecture

Explorelab

2013-06-28

Research | Guidelines for an Adaptable Community Center The research focuses on the transition of a so-called community center that has to adapt to several conditions in several chosen phases. Since the transitional community shelter is an entire separate structure that should function as an education and community center, and is designed and constructed to protect its occupants and nearby residents from specific natural disasters as well, means there a many things to take care of within the design process. Transitional community centers can be built in disaster prone areas, in this research there is a focus on typhoons, floods and earthquakes, especially in urban slum areas, which are mainly underdeveloped and have poorly constructed houses and often lack proper sanitation. The guidelines provided in this research are oriented to the needs of the designers and engineers that have to bring these kind of constructions into practice and provide a description of the range of design guidelines that need to be considered when making design that have to be able to withstand natural disasters like earthquakes, typhoons and floods. Design | An Adaptable Community Center The proposed design of an adaptable community center accommodates educational, community and sanitation facilities to upgrade standard living conditions and hygiene in the slums of Metro Manila. Offering new opportunities can boost new developments by means of a strong connection with a market place, modern communication networks and proper accessibility. Communities should not be passive recipients of information but should be encouraged to help themselves and the design is provided with the mechanisms and tools to do so. There is a need to acknowledge that facilities for information, education, sanitation and communication could actually help to develop urban slums. When disaster strikes, the community is supposed to know how to handle and the center itself can transit into a safe house to provide proper protection against high wind forces, the impact of windborne debris, monsoons and high water levels caused by typhoons and floods. In case of heavy earth shocks caused by earthquakes, the building should withstand these and immediately be able to transform into a center of emergency relief.

shelter
adaptable
community
education
facilities
slum upgrading
empowerment
relief aid
transitional
urbanization
alarming
poverty
philippines
manila
slum
re-building

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Student theses

master thesis

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