Alexandria E van Domburgh

A space designed to become a beacon for post-disaster towns as a meeting point. To gather, regroup and share the load between members.

This project responds to the need for emergence shelters that are ready and quick to be erected in the first stage of disaster relief through the use of prefabricated systems. The transition to a more permanent and longer term living state begins to happen through the addition of thermal walls and ceiling added to the structure.
This system is designed to work in both the public and private sphere to aid in the initial support of disaster relief through to the years after where people in both a community level and individual level are able to make these spaces their own.

This example shows a bathroom and living dwelling in use while the main home is being rebuilt after it was destroyed in the disaster. In this case they are intended to be pack down once the home is at completion.

In this example, the dwelling is on property while the rebuilding of house occurs, only a smaller house footprint is built and the new dwelling stays to make up the extra space.

An arrangement is made where a friend lives in a dwelling that is placed on another's property while they are getting back on their feet. Once the time has come for said friend to move on the property owner decides to make the dwelling permanent on their own land as an extension room.