Abstract
In great disasters, people can hardly endure to stay in a mass refuge environment with no privacy and they felt the burden in mind and body because setting up disaster housing took long time. We tried to develop compact emergency shelter for family use which can be set up in limited time and space by method of assembly, can support recovery of houses by placing them beside damaged houses, and can be used complementarily until disaster housing is set up or can be used for volunteers. We investigated questionnaires on the necessity and the residence performance of the sample shelter at Ube city in the tidal wave disaster area by typhoon and Ojiya city in the disaster area of the 2004 Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake. Temporal residents occupied the sample shelter in winter at Ojiya city and in summer at Ube city and tested the performance of the shelter. Then we developed new compact emergency shelter based on the test results and temporal residents occupied in winter at Ube city. This paper reviewed the practical use and residence performance of the emergency shelters for early supply, for one of the emergency shelters or housings.
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