The clients for the shelter villages would be the cities that would want to be prepared for “when” a natural disaster happen to rattle the area. The village’s plans would be purchased, as long as the area’s proposed village site met the needed village requirements: suitable square footage, minimal grade changes, clear of pre-existing structures, and being located near a storage facility and major transportation methods. This way, the city can store the shelters before a disaster strikes. Within the third design problem, creating a temporary shelter village, are five smaller problems.
The first problem is to develop a pre-designed shelter village that can be built on a “need now” basis. In the case that the pre-designed shelter village is destroyed by a natural disaster, the city would have secondary village locations around the area, similar to the villages that were placed in large parking lots after Hurricane Katrina (A). The shelter village is designed in two stages. The first stage introduces a recreational park to the area, in the hope that it helps bring individuals of a revenged community together. The second stage is to incorporate all the needed shelter village elements: a parking lot, all of the roads, the vegetation, all of the utilities (water, sewer, and electric), and the shelter pads. In addition, a village office would also be provided in the second stage (B).
The second problem is to give each shelter site enough square footage to remain comfortable for the inhabitants’ stay. Each shelter site provides the inhabitants with 3,300 square feet of space. Each 3,300 square foot shelter site provides a number of elements: either a 448 or 896 square foot shelter pad, a two car parking pad, a vegetation privacy barrier, a 1,400 or a 700 square foot open area (depending if it’s one or two shelters), and a private sidewalk (A). The one million square foot shelter village provides the inhabitants with a number of elements, besides the 100 shelter sites. These elements include a playground, four private courtyards, a walking path, and an office building (B).
The following two diagrams are of the shelter village’s site plan and site section. The site plan shows a number of elements including: the space relationships between the village, the river, and the surrounding neighborhood, the layout of the village and the recreational park, and the location of the contours. The site section shows a number of elements including: the grade changes from the village to the river, the relationship between the proposed shelter village and the industrial area, and the green wall's location to separate the village from the unwanted visual and noise pollution
(B) Shelter Village
EE: Shelter Village Road Perspective
GG: Shelter Village's Playground
JJ: Shelter Village's Walking Path and Courtyard Area
The following is two enlarged site plans. The first is the playground area. Located directly in front of the mult-purpose building's classrooms, the playground includes a seating for the adults, an interactive water fountain (similar to that of the fountains at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada). The second is an example of the main courtyard space, which is located in the middle of the shelter village. These courtyards provide two elements: a multi-level seating area (to give the users various perspectives of their surrounding), and a fountain, to help drown out the surrounding white noise, which helps to create a peaceful serene area to help the inhabitants relax and take their mind off natural disaster theyhave just endured.
Enlarded Detailed Site Plans
The nest blog posting will include the remaining of the proposed village shelter's design which will include the following elements: interior and exterior perspectives, elevations, and floor plans of the village's office and multi-purpose buildings, enlarged detailed site plans, and a wall section of the multi-purpose building, along with the explanation of the above elements.
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