Feasibility Test of an Approach and Prototype for Ultra Low Cost Housing

23 24 25 27 .29 ---Establish channels of communication and cooperation for the further development of prototypes, dissemination of the project's results, and promotion of utilization through mass construction projects.---Maintain collaboration with major relief organizations such as A.I.D., CORR, OXFAM and CARE, and maintain the interdisciplinary approach.---Maintain flexibility of approach, since differing needs, cultural patterns, availabilities of materials, geographic and climatic characteristics, changing nature of catastrophies, etc., all mitigate against a single, universally acceptable shelter prototype. II. ApproachDue to regional variations in climate, topography and culture, no universally acceptable housing prototype is possible.Thus, the Working Party decided to concentrate its initial efforts in three areas: first, the development of a building process and methodology which can be applied to a wide variety of situations; second, the development of a prototype housing unit which could be built throughout large areas of the world with whatever materials were on hand locally; third, the introduction of technological processes to improve indigenous building techniques and construction practices.All were incorporated into a design program to produce an evolutionary shelter, a unit which provides immediate shelter for refugees and, with modifications, can be turned into a long-term house.By concentrating efforts on developing housing for refugees, who are traditionally the people on the lowest rung of the housing ladder, the resulting technologies could be applied to the problem of providing housing for the ultra low income urban and rural populations in the third world.The team decided to concentrate its initial efforts on developing a prototype for tropical environments.Tropical housing was selected for several reasons:---The majority of high density refugee situations occur in the tropical regions.---Housing in tropical areas worldwide tends to utilize similar shapes, thus providing a strong cultural base from which to begin.---Tropical areas have the greatest variety of materials with which to work.---There were currently a number of active refugee operations on-going in tropical areas (Bangladesh, Indo-China, Philipp ines).

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