Project 1- For Displaced Dwellers

Project 1- Design Poster

Design Brief
For this natural disaster I have picked the Tohoku Tsunami, it occurred on the 11th of March 2011. The Tsunami cause an enormous effect to the 3 Prefectures: Miyagi, Iwate and Fukishima. Causing great damage to residential houses, buildings as well as demolishing a radiation plant. Leaving 290,000 residents of Tohoku homeless and looking for refuge.

The goal of this design, was to design a shipping container that was 20ft in size, and expand the container to make a even larger dwelling.But also to make the clients feel as if they are moving to a 2nd home instead of a temporary house. We proposed to keep the room as empty as possible, so that when the client moved in they would be able to customize the living space how ever they want, with the furniture and appliance that would be delivered to each dwelling. The lounge room is really flexible with living style, as it is designed to be like the traditional Japanese style of living. The futons they would sleep on would be easily folded away and made room for the coffee table ( which can also easily be put away).A balcony is also installed to give the clients a breath of fresh air, and a place to draw their clothing. And the dwelling only has the shower head, toilet,bathroom sink and kitchen sink pre installed.

Appliances; Electrical cook tops, mini fridge, and washing machine

Furniture; Coffee table, 2 futon (beds to each dwelling).

As each suburb are in different circumstance with the damages done by the tsunami. Our dwelling is really flexible in being able to be multiplied to form a unit. This meaning more residents are able to move in to to their own dwellings, and it would not take as much space. With the walls all being separated and only living with a spouse or family member, the privacy level is a bit better  then their old living conditions of staying at community halls.

dropbox upload https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pup7us5fzvo1gv3/61fotMry5j

week 3- Interim Poster

Interim Poster

What to improve on-

• Work a way to fit it in the one container.
• adapt the japanese styled architecture
• clearer images
• measurements, labels
• add finishes and furnish
• show that the living room is multi useful.

week 2- Client Information

•Who has been affected? How have they been affected? What are their needs and vulnerabilities?

Father and son.
The Tohoku tsunami, has swept away their suburb including their home, only little clothing was found from the disaster.

They Father and son need a new place, food, beds and look for family.
The son is still only 11, he is short and week. He still does not understand the situation well enough and tends to throw tantrums.

The father is the carer and is stressed as there is a lot to handle at once, with the lost house and the son throwing tantrums.

• Are they in an urban or rural location?

Urban area.

• What housing existed before the natural disaster? How did it deal with the division of spaces, privacy, security, climate control?

They lived in a timber studded 2 storey house. Simply 2 bedrooms, kitchen, 1 bathroom, 1 w/c, with a timber decking outdoor.

They had a traditional tea room, which they used every now and then, where seats were just cushions.

Their beds were futons, made it easier to make space for work use.

• What are the climatic conditions? Cold climate? Warm, humid climate? Hot, dry climate?

Snow fall, and cold in winter, but cool comfortable summers.

• Do those displaced dwellers have cultural or religious traditions which influence their apparel, day to day activities, or social interactions?

More modern style houses, as well as modern city.

week 2- Concept of Home

My Concept of Home, is a place where we could feel most comfortable, secure, are able to customize our surrounds. This is not limited to a dwelling or even a physical space; home can be a state of mind that you take with you. If one enjoys their job, and the enjoys the company of those they work with, they can feel at home, at work. It is secure, comfortable and customization to an extent. Then that same person can go home and be by themselves for hours at a time and feel at home. A certain  level of privacy is needed in a home, for them to go take a shower, change clothes, reproduction behavior and even personal conversations.

week 2- Understanding of Home

In 1976, Porteous maintains that a home is a dwelling that has been nurtured and developed by its inhabitants to create a place where they feel secure, which is their own, and which stimulates them. Mallet’s 2004 publication is a reflection of this, in that he believes that a home can be, and is usually, outside the house, as well as encompassing it. Mallet still maintains that it is a secure place where an individual can retreat and relax, but it is more than a house. It can be a community, a city, or even a state of mind.

week 1- Independent Study

Home is a multidimensional concept which is comprised of many different aspects of our life. It can include where our family is, where our childhood house is, where our friends are, or even wherever we happen to be at the time.

“Many researchers now understand home as a multidimensional concept and acknowledge the presence of and need for multidisciplinary research in the field.”

Mallett, S. (2004). Understanding home: a critical review of the literature. The Sociological Review, 52(1), 64.

Home is a place where someone would feel most comfortable and secure. A place where “people can retreat and relax.” This doesn’t necessarily need to be a house, or even a physical place, maybe it just needs to be a state of mind.

Mallett, S. (2004). Understanding home: a critical review of the literature. The Sociological Review, 52(1), 70.

Porteous writes around the idea of a home being purely a house, or dwelling. For this place to be a home it must tick the boxes of 3 territorial satisfactions: identity, security and stimulation.

Porteous, J. D. (1976). Home: The territorial core. Geographical Review, 66(4), 383.

week 1- Comparative Precedent Study

Shingura Ban-CONTAINER TEMPORARY HOUSING - Onagawa, MIYAGI, 2011

Yasutaka Yoshimura architects: ex container project, anywhere, japan

Design Features
Similarities

•  Both have used 2-3 containers in building the dwellings.

Differences

• Yoshimura built sun lighting into the architecture, the exterior and interior seemed to cost a bit more to furnished and produced.
• Ban used a more simpler light render to the interior of the architecture, while the outside keeping the raw container look.

Design Approach

Similarities

• Both have the idea of turning their dwelling into a unit function, repeating the dwellings to allow others to move in.

Differences

• Ban has installed built in furniture so it is more simple when clients moves in. Whilst Yoshimura has kept the space very empty, so client is able to move in their own furniture.
• In Ban lack of window openings, he equaled in installing a balcony.
• Ban proposed a 3 storey unit block, meaning easier to occupy more refugees.
  Ban also created a space for shop owners to continue their business, almost forming a temporary community instead of a temporary home.

Own Design Approach to Project 1

• I have selected the Tohoku Tsunami, which left 290,000 people homeless and turned into refugee.
• For my design I would like to create something simple, and that is able to multiply in different ways to serve the refugee.
• It should be free of space so the refugee can move around the furniture their own way.Electrical apparell should be given to them, so nothing is pre installed. Meaning more space for the clients.

Source:
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/yasutaka-yoshimura-architects-ex-container/
http://www.shigerubanarchitects.com/works/2011_onagawa-container-temporary-housing/index.html

week 1- Major Tsunami Events

1. Tohoku, Japan 2011

• March 11th,2011. A magnitude 9 earthquake shook north east of japan, which unleashed the tsunami.
• Due to japans early warning system for earthquakes, it prevented many deaths, but more than 18,000 were killed due to the drowning of the tsunami. 
• 1 hour after the earthquake, the tsunami hit the shores of japan
• The waves traveled towards inland to as far as 10km into Sendai.
• Floording areas estimated at 561 km2 in japan
• Waves destroyed japans tsunami protective barriers, destroying buildings, houses and also offshore was able to generate a whirlpool
• The tsunami also caused a nuclear meltdown, as it malfunctioned a cooling system at sukishima daiichi nuclear power plant. 300 tons of radioactive water was leaking out into the pacific ocean. destroying fishes and ocean habitats.

Tsunami rushing to shore.

Aftermath of the tsunami.

2. Soloman Islands, 2007

• April 2nd, 2007. Maginitude of 8.1 struck near Soloman Island.
• The tsunami waves wiped out thirteen to fourteen villages, many left homeless, as well as many went missing most presumed dead.
• The largest waves were reported at 12 meters high, located north of the Solomon islands, wiping out 2 other villages, as well as killing 10 people.
• Tsunami waves have wiped out hospitals, houses and villages through different parts of the Solomon islands.
• Workers arrived and reported an outbreak of diarrhea.

Aftermath of Soloman Island tsunami.

3. Indian Ocean, 2004

• Boxing day 26,12,2004, magnitude of 9.1-9.3  hit Indian ocean and triggered the lethal tsunami.
• The tsunami wave swept through 11 countries coast lines such as south Asia as well as Africa.
• The tsunami killed over 230000 people via waves up to 30m high countless injured 
• Flooding, damages of houses, damage of electrical lines
• After the tsunami, areas were effected with scarce food, poor sanitation and many became ill.

Indonesia, Sumatra before and after of tsunami

Chedi Resort, Phuket getting hit by a tsunami wave.

Source:

http://www.livescience.com/39110-japan-2011-earthquake-tsunami-facts.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Solomon_Islands_earthquake

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Asiaweb/factfile/Unique-facts-Asia17.htm
http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-2004-indian-ocean-tsunami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake#Countries_affected

week 1- Natural Disaster Research

TSUNAMI

What is a Tsunami-

• Is a japanese word known defined in english as harbour wave. 
• It is generally a series of enormous waves, that can be caused by earthquakes or volcano eruptions.
• Generally the waves come in large volumes, from where the earthquake in the sea has erupted, the waves generally start out small, but the closer it gets to shore the larger wave becomes. This causes damage to the shore. 
• Tsunami also leave floods, as the ocean water level decreases the land water level rises.

Aftermath of the Tsunami-

• Houses are swepted away leaving bits and pieces of houses and buildings lying around on land.
• Flooding is occurred due to the sea level decreasing.
• Trees are wiped out also causing massive damage to houses.
• Vegetation are flooded and destroyed.
• Nuclear waste and poisonous fluids can also leak out into the flood.
• Casualties and death of animal and people

Tsunami wave coming into shore.

Disaster it can leave behind.

Resource: 

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami
• http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/tsunami.html
• http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/tsunami1.html

Images

• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/US_Navy_050102-N-9593M-040_A_village_near_the_coast_of_Sumatra_lays_in_ruin_after_the_Tsunami_that_struck_South_East_Asia.jpg
• http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/2657464-3x2-940x627.jpg