Assignment: Humanitarian / Civic / Emergency Center
Overview:
Based on your research and essays from Week 5, you will design a temporary or emergency civic facility that supports the refugees and marginalized groups.
Options are:
Prefabricated or transportable typologies of humanitarian / civic or emergency center:
- Option 1 Emergency Clinic
- Option 2 Community Commissary Kitchen
- Option 3 Humanitarian Rescue Center for Elderly
Create a Schematic Design Poster
- Create a conceptual, schematic design solution for a temporary civic center for the country/state that you researched in Week 5. This space is to be a temporary structure (long-term or short-term) used to house refugees from natural disaster.
- Develop your design concept and be clear with your objectives. The emergency civic center should be culturally sensitive and representative of the area for which it is designed.
- Note in your design the specific global design factors that informed or influenced the design context such as: cultural or religious influence, vernacular design elements or materials, environmental impact, color, and the impact of the built environment on the human experience.
- Integrate a floor plan using a minimum of about 640 – 800 sq. ft. only. This is about the size of 4-5 pcs. of 8’x20′ foot long containers.
- Explore your configurations to link them together. You should show multiple design solutions in a quick, sketchy style (about 5-6 conceptual ideas or diagrams). Illustrate how you envision multiple units working together—do they form a community or camp or are they meant to provide seclusion and privacy?
- Show schematic ideas of how your process was developed. Ex. multiple configurations you explored: parallel containers, perpendicular containers, L-shaped prefab units, U-shaped prefab units, etc.
- Annotate the specific features and design decisions you made. Ex. materials, structure, entrances, panels, etc.
Notes: This design solution is conceptual but you need not be concerned with dimensions or restrictions. For purposes of human factors – plan on 640-800 sq. feet. However, your design should be something that can be assembled outdoors.
The objective is to show creative, conceptual ideas that represent the region you have researched. There is no limit to your creative freedom on this assignment! Explore your drawings with top view, front elevation, side elevation, and the interiors.
Include at least five, 3D color-rendered sketches along with 5-6 diagrams and thorough notes to illustrate and describe your design in an architectural poster format. Your poster should clearly illustrate the cultural influence, symbolism, and elements that were included in your research and essay.
Review the following presentation for tips on creating a design poster:
You can use any software program you prefer to create the poster (such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop), but you must convert the final poster to a PDF file prior to submitting it to the designated folder. Review the following PDF for some tips:
Watch the following video tutorial for conceptual sketching of the emergency shelter.https://player.vimeo.com/video/163834331
Submission Details
- Poster size is 11 x 17 inches – landscape only. You can format using any digital software single Adobe PDF file (less than 2.5 MB in size). Sketches can be a combination of manually drawn sketches and digital drawings. Submit only your own drawings, not digitally manipulated sketches of other professionals.
- number 2Global Design DD3
- The cultural studies of space and gender have been linked together in anthropology. Spatial relations of likeness exist between social distinctions and spatial boundaries. A temporary household space (emergency shelter) shows the lived space of everyday life, creates a cultural representation, manifests symbolic forms, and even raises the idea of kinship and gender differences.Ex. In Japan’s temporary shelters, they follow the single tatami size configuration which is 3×6 (36 x 72 inches). Each module can be 6×6 tatami 6×9, 9×9, 9×12 depending on the household size, age of children, gender, etc.. Food is not served in the assigned sleeping areas. The areas are coded like residence numbers to easily locate and mark missing persons during the emergency period. The latter is also useful in tracking the movements of people from one temporary shelter to another.In your assigned country, what three unique or peculiar observations have you noticed that support the index of spatial anthropology? Respond in about 250-300 words. Find two other peers and comment on their viewpoints. Comment to peers should at least be 75 words. Your main response and comments are due on the given deadline. Make an attempt to respond early.
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