Sunday, March 16, 2008

Outline

Project:
Looking at how worthwhile it is to put in a natural disaster design compared to the past weather changes in natural disasters for a five storey apartment building between two places.


Method:
I figure the best way to determine this question is to look at:
1. What natural disasters are and what causes natural disasters and put in preventive measures with the ones that we can control. So would search for devintions of a natural disaster and follow up with it what are some man made causes that set off disasters and perhaps look at how natural disasters start.

2. What are some major locations of natural disasters. What the different governments have done to buildings in that area compared to a area that is not in a heavy disaster area and compare the differences of the buildings. Also would be a list of these locations and a list of differences of the structures of the buildings that should all be five storey buildings. After this has been looked at then I will see if there preventive measures should be changed and if so how and reference them as to why the changes. Also put a list of preventive measures already in place and how it helps, doesn’t help prevent disasters. Then at the end of this would be asked if the policies are still worth while taking examples of other places that the rules do not work anymore because of the change in disasters over the past 100 years.

3. What are the dangers to buildings in a disaster area and how that damage can be minimized looking at past recordings to see what has been done to stop it. Following the ways that past designers have built the building and why they have done so. And ask the same as above if this is a worthwhile to keep in or remove if the disaster area has not had any major ones for a long time.

4. Looking at the changing climate and seeing what its effect can cause on the disasters that can change the way a building is built. After this is looked at do a preventive measure to stop the change in the climate that would stop the change in disasters that would stop the change in building design. But first list off the past climates and how it has changed in the last 100years. And then doing showing how its changed building design there.

5. Similar to method four but looking at what disasters has happened in the area. And then tie in as before with method four.

Special Problems:
How to show all of these relate to each other. Not to mention will the changes in natural disasters be noticeable enough to put into place a new building design.
Also:
Will even putting in the design work since the disaster could be larger than anticipated.
Should it be a comparison between two provinces or two areas in the province.

8 comments:

Morgan Turland said...

Hi Walter,

I was looking around and I found this website. It's got a lot of information on it about house design, especially for surviving floods. It's got some real neat examples too.

http://www.inhabitat.com/2006/08/29/anniversary-of-katrina-designing-for-disaster/

I also found this website which gives information about what to focus on strengthening for each different sort of disaster, which is handy. It's also got a massive list of other links which could also be useful.

http://www.disastersafety.org/main.asp?id=1102

Hope it helps!

Dale Parkes said...

Remember to revise your outline, taking into account instructor and student comments and repost to your blog.

Derek Anderson said...

Walter

Found a pretty good site that talks about the different natural hazards that buildings face and the planning around it. Hope it helps.

http://www.wbdg.org/design/resist_hazards.php

Anonymous said...

Walter,
I found this site:
http://www.architectureweek.com/topics/katrina-01.html
It is a weekly paper, and there are several articles regarding building and natural disasters. I think you will find it very useful!

it's all in the details said...

Hope these books help they can be found at Chapters:

Planning for Disaster: How Natural and Manmade Disasters Shape the Built Environment
| Trade Paperback
William Ramroth | Kaplan Publishing | May 1, 2007

Introduction To Natural And Man-made Disasters And Their Effects On Buildings
| Trade Paperback
Roxanna Mcdonald | Architectural Press | August 25, 2003

Nicole Link said...

I found this interesting article on the Overview of how LEED contributes to strategic sustainable development.

http://www.sustainablebuildingcentre.com/blog/helen_goodland_43

It has a nice balance of pros and cons.

Dustin Remillard said...

Hey Walter,
Found a book at the Library that might be useful.
Worlds Greatest Disasters by Robins Joyce

Gordon T. said...

Are you going to be looking at a specific location? Support against earthquakes and floods is way more important in California and Japan then in Oklahoma for example.