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● Problem Situation: An earthquake has left more than 100 people homeless in central Alaska. As winter is approaching, people need to be housed temporarily for one month while their homes are rebuilt. Although tents that are on hand might be a short-term solution, these lack the insulation needed to help people survive the cold temperatures and snowy conditions. The earthquake location is 200 miles from the nearest city, and snow has made travel impossible. Materials that are available locally must be used because time is of the essence.

● Your Challenge: Your challenge, as one of a team of earthquake victims, is to design and build a rapidly erectable structure that will provide insulation from the cold, withstand snow load, provide air exchange, and be built from materials that are readily available locally.

● Clarify the Design Specifications and Constraints: The shelter must be large enough for five people to sleep side by side within it. The shelter must be heated to an inside temperature of 65°F when the outside temperature is -20°F. The design must provide for air exchange.

● Research and Investigate: To complete the design challenge, you need to first gather information to help you design. Determining necessary floor space and height Determining the optimal shape of the shelter. Insulation materials. Heat flow and energy transfer

● Generate Alternative Designs: There are many ways to approach the design of an emergency shelter. Your group will choose its own type of shelter to design and model. Describe two possible versions of a shelter that might satisfy the design criteria and constraints. Sketch each of the design versions.

● Choose and Justify the Optimal Solution: What decisions did you reach that guided your choice of shelter design? Why did your group settle on this approach? What trade-offs did you make in coming to this decision?

● Redesign the Solution: What did you learn through the design and/or testing of your shelter that would inform a redesign of the model? What additional trade-offs would you have to make?

● Communicate Your Achievements: Describe the plan you will use to present your solution to your class. (Include a media-based presentation.) Demonstrate how you tested the shelter. Explain what you learned about the design of a portable shelter, heat flow, and air exchange. A report of at least 10 pages is required. The report should include all the details of the design and literature review. The lineout of report should include: Abstract, Introduction, research and investigations, alternative designs, optimal design details including size, sketches, materials..etc, conclusion, and references. A 10 minutes presentation should be prepared and presented by all or part of the group members.

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Running Head: EMERGENCY SHELTER

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In most cases, when a disaster occurs, people are often affected and they lose their
property. As a result, they will begin repairing their houses and there are many ways of
supporting those who are affected to access shelter. However, before the repairs are made, it is
important to ensure that successful assessment is made on all shelter projects such as availability
of land, the hazardous risks, livelihood accessibility, and water and community infrastructure. In
addition, it is critical that we have a strategy in place such as consideration of those who are
going to stay with host families. However, needs and strategies will often change as time goes by
where it might affect the project. Therefore, it is important to balance all factors where the design
solutions will tend to be more specific to the context. This includes safety, lifespan, privacy,
liability of implementing organization, the cost involved, timeliness, the number of shelters to be
built, equity with the host population, cultural appropriateness, and the construction skills.
When designing the shelter, there are several stages that need to be fulfilled to ensure that
the shelter design is appropriate that reflects the local culture, vulnerability as well as the
capacity of the people who are affected. Therefore, resources that are used to rebuild the
emergency shelter should be from locally available resources. In the above emergency shelter
design, the resources to be used will include timber, plastic sheeting, bricks, steel that will be
reinforced by concrete beams. A brief design is a document that is used to define the
performance of the shelter to be constructed that allows people to verify key criteria such as cost,
durability and safety. This will ensure that it balances the ideal building from a structural
perspective such as limited time and the budgets. Further, it is crucial that the shelter constructed
has drainage and accessible to community infrastructure. In addition, it is important that the
shelters constructed do not increase the vulnerability of the occupants due to the natural hazards
such as aftershock earthquakes, storms and diseases.

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In such a situation, the availability of land choice is often limited but it is important that
the location where the shelter will be constructed is selected accordingly to reduce risks that the
people living faces. Further, the amount of covered living space is critical where the minimum
covered space is ...


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