4:10 House

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Alexandra L

Lawrence, KS
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The Problem

The 4:10 House is a disaster relief shelter designed to accommodate people who have been displaced from their homes due to natural disasters. Different solutions are used all over the world when it comes to housing disaster victims or refugees many are of poor quality and lack the fundamental elements of a home.

Plan of Action

Several schemes were designed boasting deployability, modularity, cost efficiency, adaptability to locations worldwide as well as their light weight and sense of "home". Several study models were then built and a single design was chosen. Full scale mock up models were then built to test out design decisions and then final construction began. When the shelter was finished it was set up on the lawn outside of Marvin Hall on the University of Kansas campus to draw attention to the disaster relief effort. Many students were unaware of the current conditions in which refugees and disaster victims live before visiting the 4:10 house. The ultimate goal is to submit the design to organizations like FEMA and the Red Cross with hope that they can adapt a version of the shelter and use it to help those in need.

Project Updates

The design of the 4:10 house has continued to develop over these past few months improving its provided quality of living with each design change. The University of Kansas' Junior archtiectural studio of Fall 2009 run by Bruce Johnson will continue to study and improve the proto type as well as come up with new designs to bring us closer to the ideal goal of mass prodcution and global usage.

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