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Picking up the pieces : transitional shelters for disaster relief in the northern mountainous regions of Pakistan

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Picking up the pieces : transitional shelters for disaster relief in the northern mountainous regions of Pakistan

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Author: Lee, Weifeng Victoria
Other Contributors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
Advisor: Jan Wampler.
Department: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date Issued: 2006
Abstract:
This thesis seeks to tackle a complex problem - disaster housing relief - from the angle of architecture design discipline and attempts to find a logical approach to solve such a problem via an in depth examination of a specific topic - transitional shelter. The project addresses three main issues in the field of shelter design: 1) the need of transitional shelters in a particular disaster situation (the October 8, 2005 Pakistan earthquake), 2) the design criteria for the shelters in this specific setting and a systematic way of evaluating shelter designs, and 3) a specific transitional shelter design that is produced using the established methodology.
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Thesis (S.B. in Art and Design)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2006.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-121).
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62979
Keywords: Architecture.

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