Refugee City: Temporary to Permenant Shelter
Waqas Al Mulhim | ARCH 7100 | Design Research
“The people who need design ingenuity the most, the poorest 90% of the global population, have historically been deprived of it.” – Alice Rawsthorn, Design critic
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The refugee city diagram explains the problems I am planning to tackle for my thesis. The timeline explains the reasining on why chose Syria, Iraq, and Burma for my major sites. These places suffered greatly from conflicts, and humain shelters are much needed. Diagrams
The Circle on the right makes connection between the different precidents I explored during my research, and from which aspects. The world map shows the places that were considered for the research.
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Refugee Crises Timeline
This thesis idea is to design a city for the refugees and the misplaced. The goal is to understand the needs in terms comfort, then applying it to a concept that can work in heavy aggregation.
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What makes my thesis different is that I want to find a way to make the shelter from temporary tents and units, into a permanent city with shops, markets, houses and buildings. I want to explore the idea of building a rapid infustructure to house people immediataly, then slowly developing it into something bigger.
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My research will focus on countries with refugee criseses
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The following maps show the areas in which the world population is effected by world crises.
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Map 1: A 2016 world map showing all the countries that are effected by conflicts. Currently, the areas with the most terrerorism is located in the middle east. Due to the rising conflicts, people are misplaced constantly, and refugees flow toward the Europ in the North. Map 2: A 2016 world map showing the areas with the most refugees leaving the country. Due to the Syrian civil war and the non-stop conflict since 2011, the largest population of refugees is occuring in Syria. The map shows the population count relatively by cirlces, the bigger the circle the higher the population.
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UNHCR Shelter
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UNHCR Developed a shelter that is can be packaged like Ikea furniture and sent out in bulk. The shelter can be assembled easily by two or three people only. The main objuctive of the shelter is to have a structure that can be fabricated, shipped, and deployed in a very short amount of time to respond to crises. The shelter only required flat area to be assembled on. It offered some resistance to heat and cold. small windows are located on either side, and vents located on the front and back allowing heat to escape. The shelter was used heavily in response to the Syrian crises and was successful in housing families fast. Problems consist in the lifetime of strcture. Even with regular maintance, a shelter only last between three to five years, which is was proven not enough time looking at how long the Syrian civil war been going for.
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Fold and Float Shelter
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Fold and Float shelter was designed and constructed in Turkey. The shelter was designed to respond to an expected earthquate that could make land unsafe. The shelter floats on a blatform in the Dardanelles strait.. The location was chosen because it has the least tides and changes in water levels. The structure of the shelter is fabricated from shipping containers, and customized to make them foldable. The folding of the structure allows for fabricating many of them, and deploying them fast when needed..
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This Shelter was made to be fabricated and deployed as fast as possible for families. The need for more shelters makes better materials and insulations harder to use considering how long it would take to build them. These shelters were used in Africa, Southern Asia, and Syria. Even thought the shelter helped many families, the comfort level was low. Heat was a problem, along with cold, rain, wind, and dirt.. The tents required a lot of site work to make the land flat, and a place for the water to escape. The rapid fabrication of these tents and the site work were inspirtational and accomodating of deadlines.
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For my thesis project, Refugee City, I plan to research possible ways in making shelters for refugees human and comfortable. After that I plan to research if creating new cities from simple and rapid shelters is possible. My research would be conducted by gathering materials from existing projects and ideas, then build upon them. Meetings and interviews would be conducted with people and organizations who have first hand account with helping in the crises around the world.
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