Picking up the pieces : transitional shelters for disaster relief in the northern mountainous regions of Pakistan
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Author(s)
Lee, Weifeng Victoria
Advisor(s)
Jan Wampler.
Date Issued
2006
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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).
Subjects
Architecture.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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