Temporary Disaster Housing Project

Andrew has left a new comment on your post "model C will house a large family":

Hi,
I am including both your model A and C units in a comparitive matrix for my final year thesis. Just wondering what are the estimated costs for the units, and would they be shipped prefab as a unit or as panels?

Thanks,
Andrew
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Andrew
The blog was meant to get people
thinking on the subject it was started
in about 2005 and you are the only person
that has asked any questions(If I posted some
pictures of cats i would get more hits!).

as for your questions:
Q: "estimated costs for the units"
A: as cheap as possible.
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Q:"would they be shipped prefab as a unit or as panels?"
A: I was thinking of these units packed in panels and cached
in areas of high activity...
(5-6 units with tools in a small size container)
Regards,
(Mr.)K. Talat Muskara
Alanya, Rep. of Turkey.

Temporary Disaster Housing Project is a "open scource" type of project,finding solutions to problems that are to complicated for one person, many of these problems need multi-discipline knowledge and experienced minds. the internet is great for this, there are thousands of professionals(active or retired)to tap into. the projects are for the GOOD of all peoples and will be free.

dear readers,
a few months ago i came upon an article about temporary Disaster Housing that would last for 12-24 months, the article was trying to come-up with a solution to a post hurricane Katerina Disaster(I wish him the best in his project)and to my thinking was to complicated, it had solar power and other enmities that could be feasible for the U.S.A..
But what about the rest of the world?
As I live in a area(80%)prone to earthquakes, his idea spawned my idea of an open source type of finding solutions to problems that are to complicated for one person, many of these problems need multi-discipline knowledge and experienced minds.
the internet is great for this, there are thousands of professionals
(active or retired)to tap into.
the projects are for the GOOD of all peoples and will be free.

assumptions
1. all existing utilities(sewage, water, electrical, etc...)do not function.
2. transportation does not function
3. no communications(telcos, radio, TV stations, internet)
hence creation of emergency cooperation with international satellite
operators, creating standards for hardware and software.
4.creating management(personal, logistics,......).
5.creating supply "caches" around the world.
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Temporary Disaster Housing:
low tech
prefab
modular
community based(clusters of 15+)
non re-useable but recyclable
2 zones(per unit), 1 family and 1 private
toilets, showers, kitchens are not inside(communal model)
no built-in furniture because of variable cultures
plastic windows
weather and pest proofing, inside and outside

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Model B:


the above models are to start the ideas.......
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all of your input will be read by myself and if there good
workable ideas(drawings)and(or)comments I will post them.
we will have to find a freeware CAD program that will
work on windows version 98 and up.