Alojamentos pré-fabricados em contextos pós-catástrofes

Abstract

The present study is developed concerning the role of architecture in contextscontrasting with its academic background, linked to the assumptions of anarchitecture inheriting the Vitruvian principles.From a slow evolution of the forms and built environment, we turn our attentionto situations where the urgent need to shelter displaced people, as a result ofnatural disasters or social conflicts, puts the architecture in need of interveningquickly and in an ephemeral condition.In this context, the idea of what is essential is different from the one of our culturalenvironment. More than a shelter to the body, it is a way of living that is shaken,and here lies one of the main difficulties of the emergency architecture, in a quickresponse to shelter a body whose needs go beyond the physical and the culturalissues as well as social habits supported by their context.Being non profit an emergency response places the challenge of approaching thebest solution at the lowest cost. In this context, the link between architecture andprefabrication is important by allowing effective responses, on one hand by thefaster-acting due to its assemble and disassemble nature, on the other hand bythe economic capacity resulting from material optimization - and consequentlytheir transport, as well as their durability allowed by the mechanical and thermalproperties of composite materials.