A flexible modular design for disaster-relief housing to set a standard for conservation of space and materials in reconstructing communities.
The use of a transitional structure creates an opportunity to fully embrace the concepts of design for disassembly and prefabrication and modularity by allowing an entire unit to dismantle into individual, self-supporting and functioning components that can remain serviceable and useful to the occupant post-reconstruction.
The use of such a system, allowing for speed in delivery, as well as speed of return as it functions in an immediate radius of the previous/current home, creates an ability to maintain the existing social networks of the area, allowing for those in a community to regain their stability.
With the modular approach to design, the unit may exist throughout a structure, given spatial parameters, or within a specific space, or connected via the envelope – and these conditions directly relate to the extent of damage to the existing structure, as all the results of all disasters is the damage of a home, but to what degree the home remains has a category based range, which can be used to identify employment method.
