The role of architecture as it relates to hurricane relief housing in different areas and sub climates in the southeast and how it can address further issues of homelessness beyond its use as a relief shelter.
The goal is to examine and provide sustainable relief housing for natural disasters that can be rapidly built and be site specific.
Examine how different cultures react to natural disasters such as hurricanes in 3 distinct areas: South Florida, the Gulf Coast
Look for potential opportunities to have the housing be expandable and customizable for permanent use in areas like Miami
In the process, research will be done to examine previous precedents for emergency relief housing, to look at their short comings as well as past successes.
Also, as part of this process, the need to examine the main areas and climates affected by hurricanes, the potential assets and liabilities of each of these climates, and how they can affect the given design and sustainability of each home.
Apply what I have learned through research to design a home that will be site specific, and fit into the given context, but still work off of a prototype, only using minor modifications for each sub climate.
A goal of this process is to examine prototyping, and ways to build homes as fast as possible to respond to a hurricane, therefore examining different means of construction, site built, prefab, etc.
This project is meant to explore how to economically build homes, while still being sustainable.
Meaning, that these homes should not only be able to be built cheap, but have lower baseline costs to maintain them as well.
A secondary goal of the project is to see how these homes can influence and address the transition back to a sense of normalcy.
However, during this transition, it is important to see how these homes can affect areas of high homeless rates, like South Florida , and if these homes can help alleviate some of this burden.
So, the final goal of this project is to see how these homes can be customized to provide for permanent housing.
An important aspect of relief shelters to consider is the psychology of the people affected by the disaster and the sense of community. It may by worthwhile to look at the site at a larger scale. How can the layout and interstitial space between units form a community? Are they single units or multiple-family structures? What other programmatic elements (medical,educational, etc) are needed and can they also make use of this "prototype"?
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