PHASE 1_Seismos

Razvan Voda, Jaeho Park, Huizhong Li, Xiaonan Liu

Humans are being continuously shaped by their designs. All human activities leave their permanent imprint on nature, with the level of human engagement to the occurrence of natural disasters becoming higher every year. For decades humanitarian architects have stressed the importance of addressing post-disaster scenarios. However, often the responses were inappropriate shelters built only for a small proportion of the affected population. Our project is a post-disaster autonomous shelter system, that is three-dimensional, rapidly deployable, real-time, and adaptive. Using mobile robotic units that are globally distributed in the areas with a high risk of earthquakes, the system aims to house and heal physically and psychologically the victims. Real-time control systems like Kiva and AutoStore were analysed to systematically design a framework that is capable to efficiently respond to a post-disaster scenario. Earthquake-proof units will transform, autonomously move, and aggregate, forming housing clusters for the people in need.