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Abstract:
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Population growth, amount of out-of-school-children and challenges due to climate change put pressure on education system in many countries and create challenges for it in future. In addition to these facts, natural catastrophes and armed conflicts destroy existing school buildings and leave children without education, which would be important for development of both individuals, and for development of all society. Education, which would also help getting back on track after catastrophe and mitigating damages of forthcoming disasters. Especially children of developing countries are in difficult situation, because these countries are most vulnerable to natural phenomenon.
In this thesis, circumstances, threats and opportunities of providing education in these risk areas are studied, concentrating especially to requirements of educational buildings. The way, how the risks could be mitigated, how society could be prepared to disasters and how disaster recovery could be done, is tried to find.
Design project is done according to the information of study, trying to find one solution to lack of educational premises in risk areas. Design is based on competition entry to architecture competition of modular classroom organized by Architecture for Humanity in spring 2009. In thesis this entry is further developed especially as temporary teaching unit to catastrophe areas.
Designed classroom is modular, combinable, flexible and relocatable teaching unit, that could serve for example as part of disaster recovery programme of some humanitarian organization. In design project, there are three alternative cladding-systems, that can be chosen according to location, time schedule, resources and needs. To prefabricated steel frame of teaching unit, can be connected either prefabricated panels, canvas or local cladding materials. /Kir10 |