Abstract
Temporary shelters are directly related to human survival in the early stages of a disaster. In that sense, shelters must provide an adequate response, focusing on spatial characteristics that should be relevant to social and environmental expectations. These work studies which spatial attributes of temporary shelters must be explored through a dimensional approach of public places proposed by Holanda and Kohlsdorf. Designing temporary shelters with a specific regard on the user-environment relationship is an activity that must also be based on the compatibility between the principles of Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Logistics, concepts that will be also approached in this study. From the dimensional approach to places, the authors also present spatial attributes that must be explored when seeking the best possible performance for temporary shelters.Keywords: architecture, emergency shelters, spatial attributes, Humanitarian Logistics, natural disaster.
Highlights
The effects of recent natural disasters around the world has led to the rapid development of a new area of research: Humanitarian Logistics
Considering the space dimensional approach proposed by Holanda and Kohlsdorf (1994), one should reckon which spatial attributes of the temporary shelter must be operated within each dimension
Functional dimension (a) The temporary shelter must have direct, easy and secure access to schools and recreational areas, churches, markets, as well as other services necessary to the subsistence and daily well-being of its occupants (Figure 3)
Summary
The effects of recent natural disasters around the world has led to the rapid development of a new area of research: Humanitarian Logistics. The identification, analysis and solutions related to the problems of accessibility to public services and social issues in general, have attracted the attention of a significant portion of society. These issues have been the subject of research and theories developed by members of the project “Logistics Systems, Emergency and Transport” research group in Humanitarian Logistics – NPLOG of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. The international community recognizes the increase of natural and human-caused disasters, as well as their magnitude and the number of people affected by them. Disaster is understood as an impact or a loss of such magnitude that it results in a condition of inability to deal with, absorb and recover from such crises with its own resources (Cardona et al, 2003)
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