Self Safe Modular House

South East University, Department of Architecture, Dhaka

Fahim

Project idea

A modular housing solution designed to address the impacts of natural disasters on vulnerable communities, tackling issues of homelessness, displacement, and loss of livelihood caused by repeated disaster cycles.

Project description

The project addresses multiple consequences of natural disasters including homelessness and displacement, loss of livelihood and income, damage to houses, roads, bridges and utilities, loss of livelihoods such as fishing, farming and small businesses, slowed national development, repeated disaster cycles trapping communities in poverty, loss of crops, forests and biodiversity, loss of forest resources, and damage to agriculture and fisheries. The self-safe modular house concept aims to provide resilient, adaptable shelter for disaster-prone regions.

Technical information

In this project Locally available materials are used: bamboo, bamboo sheets, terpal, and precast RCC footings. The RCC footings are precast, so they can be made in advance and used later; they are also reusable and can be relocated. I chose bamboo as the structural material because it is easily available in our country, grows rapidly, and has a low carbon footprint. It is also reusable. I used terpal because it can be reused and easily transported from one place to another.
GI sheet are not use for the roof material instead of terpal, because once GI sheets are damaged, they have to be discarded. Terpal, on the other hand, can be reused for other purposes. Also, I did not use concrete or bricks as the structural material in place of bamboo, because concrete and bricks are very difficult to relocate and cannot be reused; they have to be broken down.

Documentation

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