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| dc.contributor.author | Dallas Mahaney | English |
| dc.contributor.author | Mahaney, Dallas | English |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-14T19:00:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-14T19:00:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-09-14 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10429/2062 | |
| dc.description | Architects and designers continue to seek new innovative ways to house individuals that are reproduced at a large scale sustainably. Modular buildings are changing how architects create structures. Modularity allows for these spaces to be adaptable, which allows the unit to be easily changed over, rapidly produced, shortens the construction time and overall costs. It is the responsibility of the architect to consider how the unit is constructed in a sustainable manner. Architects should also consider the sustainability measures that improve the efficiency of the unit and its impact on the environment. Biomimicry is being used to integrate the local environment into the project and challenge designers to build and live more sustainably. Biomorphic describes anything resembling or suggesting the forms of a living organism. It is critical to think of new innovative solutions to house individuals through a lens of sustainability to ensure both humans and nature are both prospering while achieving a level of sustainability for the future. This thesis will bring light to a new way of thinking about sustainable biomimetic modular units. The unit will be used as a response to the natural disaster events, but as a model that can house individuals in various types of living conditions in North America. Climate change is giving rise to severe natural disasters on a global scale that is displacing and killing millions of people annually. The United States contributes the most carbon dioxide emissions globally and spends the most on natural disaster relief efforts. Many of these relief efforts used are the same type of construction, which is prone to failing, and some mitigation efforts harm the natural ecosystem. People in poverty typically face the brunt of the effects of natural disasters because of the lack of resilient homes and the destruction of the land they harvest. We must rethink the way we prepare for natural disasters, mitigate, and recover from these natural disasters. If we consider these tactics through the lens of nature, it will help to lower our greenhouse gas emission and create new resilient strategies that allow for nature and humans to prosper while mitigating the effects of natural disasters. The thesis research builds upon the FEMAs Housing Strategy and various precedents to understand the current challenges that face natural disaster relief in North America. The master thesis outlines strategies for resilient and adaptive housing to be deployed in natural disaster relief with a primary focus in San Leon, Texas, as a case study to test approaches for addressing the issue of flooding. This research will critique the current response to disaster relief, and propose new tactics driven by the needs of the individual, the community, the environment, and the sustainability of the modular unit. The proposed strategy is investigated through the lens of biomimicry to design more sustainably and allow humans and nature both to prosper while mitigating the effects of natural disasters. The thesis aims to develop a core unit that will replace the current FEMA trailer model with the new tactics outlined. The core unit will show simulations that will propose how one unit can be adapted in multiple ways. The intention of the core unit will provide a model that is primarily intended to deal with natural disaster relief, but also as a potential model that can be implemented in any living condition in North America. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | A new model of sustainable housing is called for by the growing number of natural disasters. Current disaster relief housing fails to meet sustainable standards and does not consider the personal impacts of natural disasters as the driving force of the design of the home module. This master thesis outlines strategies for resilient and adaptative housing to be deployed in natural disaster relief with a primary focus in San Leon, Texas. This location is used as a case study to test approaches for addressing the issue of flooding. The key concepts explored as a lens of investigation are modularity, transportability, sustainability, desirability, and improving personal responses. Based on research conducted on these key concepts, the research will critique the current response to disaster relief, and propose new tactics driven by the needs of the individual, the community, the environment, and the sustainability of the modular unit. The proposed strategy, First Quarter Recovery, suggests a new organizational structure and housing unit that is incrementally built, using biomimetic principles that allow humans and nature both to prosper while mitigating the effects of natural disasters. Analysis of the First Quarter home concerning the ability for the unit to be adaptive, transported, resilient and respond to the psychological impacts proved that this method greatly enhanced existing current disaster relief home modules. Further research is needed to explore the home in various climatic conditions, and how the proposed housing unit reduces stigma related to mobile homes. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Galveston | en_US |
| dc.subject | Texas | en_US |
| dc.subject | San Leon | en_US |
| dc.subject | biomimicry | en_US |
| dc.subject | bimorphic | en_US |
| dc.subject | resiliency | en_US |
| dc.subject | modularity | en_US |
| dc.subject | adaptability | en_US |
| dc.subject | transportability | en_US |
| dc.subject | disaster relief | en_US |
| dc.subject | emergency relief | en_US |
| dc.subject | sustainability | en_US |
| dc.subject | natural disaster | en_US |
| dc.subject | shelter | en_US |
| dc.subject | global warming | en_US |
| dc.title | First Quarter Recovery | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | A new model for disaster relief sustainable housing in Galveston, Texas | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
