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An Approach To Light-Frame Disaster Relief Housing, Hayley Dickson, Megan Cronan, Anne Walkingshaw, Katherine Busch
An Approach To Light-Frame Disaster Relief Housing, Hayley Dickson, Megan Cronan, Anne Walkingshaw, Katherine Busch
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
An Approach to Light-Frame Disaster Relief Housing investigated the use of bamboo structures to provide safe, affordable and easily constructible housing in developing countries that are prone to natural disasters. The team chose to use the Cagayan Valley Region in Northern Philippines that has a demonstrated need for relief housing due to its susceptibility to high seismic activity, monsoons, and floods. The proposed solution includes a complete structural and geotechnical foundation design of a house that can resist the demand loads determined for the region. The structural system is designed using bamboo and includes a lateral force resisting system, and …