Design: Disaster Relief Shipping Container

This project, in conjunction with Architecture for Humanity, was to design a home, based on a shipping container, to offer to families in a disaster relief scenario. I looked at the issue of flooding in south east Asia, particularly in Vietnam and Bangladesh. I developed a complete package, which can be unpacked and unfolded upon arriving on site. The container is a total home in the initial stages of the disaster, but can later become part of a home as the recipients rebuild, and can be added to and configured in different ways depending upon the local culture and present needs. The only necessary material not fitted inside the container is the bamboo used for erecting the roof and making additions; this would come from the bamboo raft used to fl oat the container to the site. Used AutoCad, 3DS Max, Photoshop.

Plans: Left, of packed container, right, unpacked and in use.

Sections showing different contexts and adaptations

External views of the container showing different possible roof forms made using the same packed components

Rendered views of interior and roof space in use.

Design: Section and plans from the Naked City project

The Brief was to begin by exploring situationalist methods of understanding the city, particularly through the derive. This led to the concept of the world and, by extension, built spaces, as a series of stages on which to view the drama of life. The building was then developed using view shafts both in the horizontal and vertical planes, generating a set of stages, into which was fi tted the programmatic requirements of a dance school.

Diagonal Section through building in use

Plans of basement and ground levels, showing viewshafts used to generate structure

Plan of first and second levels, showing viewshafts used to generate structure

Architectural Drawings

Photos; structures

Photos; people

Photos; travelling



 

Photos; around Auckland