Temporary Shelter For Sumatera Victims

Recently I've been so lucky getting an internship at GENESIS, my admired Mr. Yu Sing's consultant. This is the first project he asked me to handle.

A simple design, voluntarily made for the victims of Sumatera Earthquake. The concept is to create temporary space. Usual temporary shelters are relatively narrow and poorly designed. The usual structures used are basicly of a triangle. What we did is improvising the shape of a triangle to a trapeze. The motive is to create space more comfortable for human height. This form is also a lot simpler than a regular house with wall-roof system. The trapeze is then expanded front to add more space for storage.

Also responding the context of "rumah sumatera" that is closely related to "rumah gadang", the trapeze is expanded to both sides. The expansion gives a more traditional effect to the design.

We used fiber cement as the main material of this design. The basic structure is made of bamboo. Gladly, I can say that this design will cost no more than Rp 2.000.000,00 to build. And it gives a 6m x 3m space for the victims. Hopefully this design helps. :)