By researching natural disaster displacement and the process in which we rebuild, I have found that by creating a modular prefabricate unit that is both cost efficient and easy to construct, we can significantly reduce the rebuild time, reduce people from leaving, as well as encourage new residents to move to the effected area.
It is important as an architect and designer to use our skills to better help humanity. By focusing on the effects of Hurricane Harvey in the Houston Area, I have developed a unit design, and infrastructure plan that can be used universally around the world to help effected cities and people survive after a natural disaster.
These findings are useful in the fact that the United State has no universal plan when dealing with disaster events. By creating a plan to provide single and multi family units, and incorporating them within close distance to necessary needs and infrastructure, this plan has the potential to reduce rebuild time, and encourage economy growth. / Master of Architecture / The value in which this thesis will bring to humanity is the implementation of a modular disaster relief structure that anyone can build. It will be able to be constructed in four days, by two people with no previous construction experience.
Implementing this plan will help speed up the rebuild process after a natural disaster. This will create one universal unit and infrastructure implementation plan to provide residents of an affected are the resources needed to survive in the case of an event such as a hurricane or flooding.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/83776 |
| Date | 26 June 2018 |
| Creators | Donato, Christian |
| Contributors | Architecture, Edge, Kay F., Dugas, David, Rodriguez-Camilloni, Humberto L. |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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