A Proposal for a Comprehensive Approach to Safer Non-engineered Houses

作者：Narafu Tatsuo^*; Ishiyama Yuji; Okazaki Kenji; Ando Shoichi; Imai Hiroshi; Pribadi Krishna S; Dixit Amod Mani; Ahmad Najib; Ali Qaisar; Turer Ahmet

来源：Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2010, 9(2): 315-322.

DOI：10.3130/jaabe.9.315

• earthquakes
• disaster reduction
• non-engineered houses
• comprehensive approach

Reducing earthquake disasters in non-engineered houses is an acute issue because they are a main cause of human casualties worldwide. Since non-engineered houses differ from engineered houses in many respects, the authors conducted a comparative study and clarified the characteristics of the former. Based on this study, they found that reducing disasters in non-engineered houses would require appropriate seismic technologies to be adopted by communities and effective channels to disseminate technical knowledge. Further, a comprehensive approach covering a wider field of activity and effort was found to be necessary as users/dwellers of non-engineered houses are low/middle-income people and a professional housing supply sector usually does not exist for such houses. This paper reports on the characteristics of non-engineered houses, indicates the items to be tackled in reducing earthquake disasters in such dwellings, and proposes an approach to safer non-engineered houses consisting of key issues and a comprehensive approach.

• 出版日期2010-11