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Design and Construction Features of Temporary Housing for Flood Rehabilitation Through Tactical Urbanism
Floods are perceived to be the most common and wide-spread natural disaster with vast adverse consequences on the life, land and properties. Coastal areas and low-lying lands are more susceptible to flash-flood events where the post-event reclamations are quite laborious and time consuming. In this paper, we provide an effective design and innovative construction approach in providing safe, strong and simple housing solutions for the flood rehabilitants during their early recovery period. The proposed housing can rest on an elevated platform using supportive columns and the body frames can be quickly connected to complete the construction using the principles of Tactical Urbanism in Construction (TUC). Use of cavity walls, mezzanine flooring and sheet-metal roofing are preferred to considerably reduce the dead-load. The structural design consists of attaining optimized dimensions for the selected building components using the principles of Pre-Engineered Buildings (PEB). The roof design consists of an inner water-proof sheet covered with metal sheets as claddings. The structure is tested for its stability under additional weight-loading and wind effects. The limit-state based design approach confirmed the structural stability and safety under given conditions. In addition, considering the real-time scenario, efficient place-making design is adopted for safe storage and easy access of emergency accessories inside the house. In order to enhance the sustainability attributes of the model, additional features are provided to make the structure strong and appealing. There will also be provisions to provide solar panels for energy storage and gutters for draining the rain water. In order to safeguard the inhabitants from water-borne health risks, the floor tiles can be made of clay along with CsAgO2 (0.2 µm fraction heated to 200 ºC–550 ºC) to provide bactericidal property. In addition, the steel frames of the PEB are paintable with mosquito repellent paints to safeguard from the vector-borne transmitting diseases. The structure can also have provisions to produce sustainable electricity using the high TDS content of the floodwater using chargeable electrodes. By using this design approach, the PEB can significantly reduce the cost of construction while TUC can help in saving time, space and embodied energy.
Design and Construction Features of Temporary Housing for Flood Rehabilitation Through Tactical Urbanism
Floods are perceived to be the most common and wide-spread natural disaster with vast adverse consequences on the life, land and properties. Coastal areas and low-lying lands are more susceptible to flash-flood events where the post-event reclamations are quite laborious and time consuming. In this paper, we provide an effective design and innovative construction approach in providing safe, strong and simple housing solutions for the flood rehabilitants during their early recovery period. The proposed housing can rest on an elevated platform using supportive columns and the body frames can be quickly connected to complete the construction using the principles of Tactical Urbanism in Construction (TUC). Use of cavity walls, mezzanine flooring and sheet-metal roofing are preferred to considerably reduce the dead-load. The structural design consists of attaining optimized dimensions for the selected building components using the principles of Pre-Engineered Buildings (PEB). The roof design consists of an inner water-proof sheet covered with metal sheets as claddings. The structure is tested for its stability under additional weight-loading and wind effects. The limit-state based design approach confirmed the structural stability and safety under given conditions. In addition, considering the real-time scenario, efficient place-making design is adopted for safe storage and easy access of emergency accessories inside the house. In order to enhance the sustainability attributes of the model, additional features are provided to make the structure strong and appealing. There will also be provisions to provide solar panels for energy storage and gutters for draining the rain water. In order to safeguard the inhabitants from water-borne health risks, the floor tiles can be made of clay along with CsAgO2 (0.2 µm fraction heated to 200 ºC–550 ºC) to provide bactericidal property. In addition, the steel frames of the PEB are paintable with mosquito repellent paints to safeguard from the vector-borne transmitting diseases. The structure can also have provisions to produce sustainable electricity using the high TDS content of the floodwater using chargeable electrodes. By using this design approach, the PEB can significantly reduce the cost of construction while TUC can help in saving time, space and embodied energy.
Design and Construction Features of Temporary Housing for Flood Rehabilitation Through Tactical Urbanism
Structural Integrity
Fonseca de Oliveira Correia, José António (editor) / Choudhury, Satyabrata (editor) / Dutta, Subhrajit (editor) / Sivakkumar, Shiva Nandhini (author) / Narayanamurthy, Balraj (author) / Shanmugam, Dhivyabharathi (author) / Mangottiri, Vasudevan (author)
International Conference on Advances in Structural Mechanics and Applications ; 2021 ; Silchar, India
Advances in Structural Mechanics and Applications ; Chapter: 11 ; 139-154
Structural Integrity ; 26
2022-07-15
16 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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