Design to Help

An emergency shelter will be needed whenever an event happened. Usually emergency shelter is designed for natural disaster, war and other event according to the situation of the site. Somehow, multipurpose emergency shelter been designed to suit every single condition of the happening event as much as possible. Emergency shelter only provides necessary needs for refugees during the event. For example: privacy, space to live, protection, space for belongings and emotion security. (unhcr.org, accessed: 21 Dec 2014)

 

From a study of “Shelter after disaster, guidelines for assistance”, done by the United Nations, New York on 1982, there are 2 specifically clear bearing on the subject, highlighting yet again the importance of this area of disaster relief and raising some important question that will be noted as concerned with shelter and housing provision with the following 5 “mistake”. (Geneva, May 1982, p1)

 

These 5 following mistakes are;

‘ -How should disaster assistance be dispensed? Should it be simple given away, subsidized or marketed in the affected area?

  -How can outside aid be balanced with local self-help?

  - What type of housing or shelter should be provided permanent or emergency?

  -How can the active participation of the affected community be mobilized during the post-disaster pressure for swift action?

  -How can the government retain control of housing reconstruction?’ (Gevena, May 1982, p1)

 

Other than that, emergency shelter also can be analyze in:

1. Types of the emergency shelter;

2. Materials using;

3. Timeline of the emergency shelter;

4. Function of the emergency shelter.