Feasibility Test of an Approach and Prototype for Ultra Low Cost Housing
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Abstract
Construction Procedures A. Construction Manuals I. Instructor's Manual 37 II.Part I Construction (single shelter) 39 III.Part II Mass Production 50 IV.Structural Plan 68 V. Decision Tree 69 ---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. Approach Due 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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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".