Designing Postdisaster Temporary Housing Facilities: Case Study in Indonesia

作者：Tsai Ming Kuan^*

来源：Natural Hazards Review, 2015, 16(3): 05014007.

DOI：10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000163

• Building models
• Computer graphics
• Geographical information
• Postdisaster reconstruction
• Temporary housing

This study reports a case study regarding designs of postdisaster temporary housing facilities in Indonesian communities. Frequent natural disasters have caused severe damage in Indonesia. Thus, during the period from emergency relief to permanent residence, accommodating communities in disaster areas is imperative. While investigating current temporary housing solutions regarding the design of housing facilities, three problems are identified: inappropriate information exploration, insufficient information representation, and inconvenient information integration. Indonesian communities ultimately are not satisfied with the temporary housing, because they experience difficulty in identifying resettlement sites, designing housing facilities, and understanding the interdependence between the sites and facilities. To resolve these problems, the author proposes an approach consisting of geographical, building, and graphics information-based mechanisms. After some tests, the results show that, compared to conventional methods (i. e., paper-based maps and drawings) with human processes, this approach more effectively helps to identify resettlement sites, computerize building models, and integrate the sites and models. Overall, this study offers a useful reference for similar applications in postdisaster reconstruction and management.

• 出版日期2015-8
• 单位中央民族大学