Unidad Modular de Vivienda de Emergencia Desmontable Post Desastre a Mediano Plazo para Clima Tropical en Colombia

Abstract

This project is based on the urgent problem of the need for temporary emergency shelter for affected families by natural disasters in Colombia. In this way, in the last 10 years a total of 3.510 events have been recorded, taking the lives of 149.638 people and destroying more than 56.000 homes. In consequence, those affected go through a period of housing uncertainty, due to the low reception infrastructure and the time of construction permanent houses which takes between six and twelve months. Therefore, the proposal is to design demountable modular units to proportionate temporary shelter for the first nine months after the early recovery assistance provided by governments entities and/or civil defence; taking into account the territory and its wide climatic and topographical variety. The project focuses on the design of a demountable modular emergency shelter unit for medium term post disaster situations in Colombia. The objective is designing a modular emergency shelter unit for post disaster affected people for tropical climate in Colombia. For the correct design, are establish a series of strategies that consider construction techniques, materials and bioclimatic criteria.