Creating temporary micro-villages for disaster relief operations: the numerous challenges, and the current and future solutions

BcA. Albert Muhleman, BA

Master's thesis

Abstract:

Aim of thesis: to create the most portable, reusable, environmentally-sound method for cleaning clothing and bedding in the chaotic, unsanitary conditions of the 21st-century refugee/displaced peoples camp. The creation of the building is inclusive, socially sensitive and pragmatic, as its continued operation to mitigate the unsanitary conditions in an attempt to restore dignity.Utilising a fusion of current technologies: solar energy, solar water heating, vastly-improved battery technology, engineered bamboo, improved bamboo joining techniques, Biochar greywater treatments that fertilize banana tree groves planted in circles around shallow pits close to the washing machines, the POWF becomes a physical and psychological oasis.The thesis project initiates the enzymatic effect that cleanliness can have in the modern disaster relief camp to ameliorate the dire situation of the modern displaced person/refugee, in a permanent effective and empowering way by restoring their basic human dignity with simple sanitation under challenging circumstances.

Keywords

Portable Building, Disaster Relief, Engineered Bamboo Construdtion, Solar Power, Solar Water Heating, Displaced people, Greywater reuse

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 20. 4. 2018

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Peter Kumble, Ph.D.
• Reader: Henry Hanson, externi

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Environmental Sciences

Master programme / field:
Landscape Engineering / Landscape Planning