Abstract
Problem statement: The incidence of natural disasters as well as followed human beings’ efforts for reestablishing life is considered as unavoidable essence of nature. Whilst, the interdisciplinary theme of post disaster recovery and reconstruction has been researched worldwide in order to examine its different aspects. And within architectural interests, evaluating the housing reconstruction programs would lead to beneficial clues through which useful lessons may be learnt in terms of reconstruction management while facing such unexpected challenges. Approach: This study aimed to present the visual results of the field work survey based on the mixed method research regarding post-Bam 2003 earthquake housing reconstruction efforts. In fact, the whole study was designed to find out the relation between the attitude of survived households toward their new built homes and the degree of their participation in housing reconstruction process. The focus was on analyzing the selected captured photographs provided to support the findings as documentation of research observations. Results: Accordingly, photographs were organized in to certain categories used as a mode of interpretation within the structure of visual research method analysis. The results indicated that despite different meanings of home to households, their active participation in new housing would accelerate the recovery process from sense of loss caused by catastrophes. Besides, hereby the visual and abstract tools and objectives used by households in order to express their feelings and attitude toward new built homes was addressed within defined method. Conclusion: The results indicated that despite various limitations causing change in local housing pattern following Bam earthquake, residents have attempt to express their cultural identity in some degrees as linkage to lost settings.
Highlights
The city of Bam, located in the southeast of Iran was hit by a destructive earthquake of 6.6° magnitude in December 2003
Different nongovernmental international organizations were involved in the reconstruction programs following temporary phase of the recovery process
Housing Foundation as the official governmental agency was regarded as the coordinator of post-Bam quake reconstruction efforts
Summary
The city of Bam, located in the southeast of Iran was hit by a destructive earthquake of 6.6° magnitude in December 2003. The causalities of this quake made it as one of the catastrophic disasters in the recent history of the country. Different nongovernmental international organizations were involved in the reconstruction programs following temporary phase of the recovery process. The city was divided to different zones and the branches of Housing Foundation organized within financial and administrational supports of other provinces of the country were involved in the initial stages of housing program. Monitoring engineers were following up all stages to ensure that the physical structures of new houses are based on approved building codes and standards. Households could receive allocated loans and grants gradually due to the approval of Housing Foundation
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