CRAFT Sustainability
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Tectonics
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Diagram
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Scale
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Materiality
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design a fixed and mobile disaster response sanitation
Context, Infrastructure, Community
unit for countries where polluted water and poor sanitation account for 2,000,000 needless deaths per year and
Site+Place
Instructor: Eric Mar
The semester was structured around an initial investigative exercise and three design projects. The investigative
The third design project was for a community amenity,
decisions will be made, and it explored alternatives for in-
which maybe a static building, a mobile service, or even
frastructure provision. Urbanism
shelter for a family. Large-scale models and drawings of each proposal, with clear ideas about structure, tectonics, material, detailing, and environmentally sustainable systems were required. The siting of these shelters as it impacts sustainability and the future social and eco-
Foreign/Global Studies
mation can be found on their website at: http://www.wherevertheneed.org.
exercise established the context within which design
The first design project was the design of an emergency
nomic development were considered. This project aimed
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half the illness in the developing world.� Additional infor-
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a small piece of infrastructure. An analysis of the amenity’s program with an eye towards long-term social and economic sustainability was required. Active and passive systems for heating, cooling, ventilation, and building services were considered, with an emphasis on low car-
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bon footprint solutions that could be widely applied in other contexts. [1] [2] [3] bernice ngo
to a large degree towards the prototypical. The shelters lent themselves to mass-production, but also allowed for
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extreme transformation through local vernacular construction methods by their inhabitants. The second design project was for a competition / exhibit in conjunction with the non-profit Wherever The Need “to 502IDP