IN-PERSON Prague Research & Teaching Conference

Abstract

Nowadays, rapid growth of the economy and society has changed the ways of living in the community. For low-income people, they try to adjust themselves to survive in this changing world. One of the main problems for them is a lack of living places. A temporary shelter in rural and urban areas is socially a direct solution in responding to their fundamental needs. In the past, in the northeast of Thailand, I-san, a temporary shelter was traditionally built to serve a low in-come people or for living temporary in the rice field. The study includes a survey of low-income temporary shelters in Khon Kaen, Thailand. The results of the study gave the guidelines for undergraduate students in the summer class at school of architecture, Khon Kaen university, Thailand. Based on the guidelines, 2.5 m. x 5 m. temporary shelters, four different designs were built under the limitations of cost, materials, time and skill of students. The information from the undergraduate classroom was shared with a graduate student and developed to be a prefabricated temporary shelter. The final idea was to build a shelter that is movable and can be transported with a small truck with limitation of budget, time and labor for construction. The final solution has been built under the 100,000 bath (2,900 USD) and can be constructed within 4 hours by 4 people. The prototype was donated to the Thai temple for a buddhist monk resident.