Living-transforming disaster relief shelter: a conceptual approach for sustainable post-disaster housing

Ghanbarzadeh Ghomi, Sara, Wedawatta, Gayan, Ginige, Kanchana and Ingirige, Bingunath (2021) Living-transforming disaster relief shelter: a conceptual approach for sustainable post-disaster housing. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 11 (4). pp. 687-704. ISSN 2044-124X

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-04-2020-0076

Abstract

Purpose:
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of post-disaster housing reconstruction projects, propose the conceptual living-transforming disaster relief shelter (LTFDR-shelter) approach where temporary shelter is incrementally transformed into a more permanent dwelling by using living technologies and investigate its applicability to provide sustainable post-disaster housing following natural-hazard-induced disasters.

Design/methodology/approach:
A questionnaire survey with 120 household recipients of three Sri Lankan post-disaster housing projects was employed to explore how the post-disaster housing projects have performed against the occupants' expectations. Furthermore, the new proposed LTFDR-shelter conceptual approach's applicability to address the existing issues found in the study was investigated.

Findings:
The paper evaluates and identifies the physical and technical, and socio-economic performance issues of post-disaster housing and discusses the applicability of the proposed LTFDR-shelter conceptual approach as an efficient tool to adequately improve the identified factors integrating three phases of relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction employing living technology.

Research limitations/implications:
Although the study's scope was limited to the occupant view of the performance of post-disaster housing in Sri Lanka, the findings and conceptual LTFDR-shelter approach could be of particular relevance to other developing countries affected by similar disasters. Further research is recommended to investigate and develop this concept in depth.

Originality/value:
This study lays the conceptual foundation for a new theoretical approach in post-disaster housing, which encourages more interdisciplinary collaborations and empirical investigations that potentially enhance post-disaster housing performance and facilitates the application of living technology in the built environment.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Funding information: Background research was funded by a grant from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Bowen Jenkins Fund. The first author’s PhD research is funded by Northumbria University’s Research Development Fund (RDF).
Uncontrolled Keywords: housing, performance, post-disaster, transform, living technology
Subjects: K900 Others in Architecture, Building and Planning
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Architecture and Built Environment
Depositing User: John Coen
Date Deposited: 22 Jun 2021 09:12
Last Modified: 21 Dec 2021 13:15
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/46511

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