Reusing Earthquake Rubble in a Temporary Housing Structure for Hot Arid Climates
Publication: Journal of Architectural Engineering
Volume 28, Issue 2
Abstract
Natural disasters are responsible for causing significant damage to built environments and its consequent homelessness. This subject is notable in developing countries, specifically when they are located in earthquake-prone areas. After extensive destruction due to such incidents, authorities are confronted with numerous economic, social, and environmental complications in the implementation of housing solutions. Temporary housing (TH) is a short-term solution enabling communities to return to their routine activities by providing a minimum level of housing requirement. To accelerate the recovery procedure, resources should be carefully managed and a sustainable plan concerning economic, social, and environmental complexities should be developed. Therefore, this paper investigates the shortcomings of the existing TH solutions and uses prior experiences to propose a sustainable TH solution for an extensive area of Iran with a hot-arid climatic condition. Accordingly, the result is a TH system using earthquake rubbles in modular gabion containers. It was found that such a method could increase the occupants comfort level up to 8.61% while reducing a project’s carbon footprint compared with the existing solutions. The proposed system assists authorities in confronting disasters with a more sustainable TH plan.
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Acknowledgments
This research was developed as a result of a practice-based study at the University of Art, Tehran and did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
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Received: Sep 8, 2020
Accepted: Feb 18, 2022
Published online: Apr 15, 2022
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