DIY-16 A TEMPORARY SHELTER
DIY-16 Community
DIY-16 is a transformation of familiarities into a design that answers a need rather than complicating it with aesthetic consideration. It minimizes public expenditures on temporary shelters while considering availability of the materials. DIY-16 provides a chance for any group of people to make and assemble a shelter with no or little help and with almost zero cost.
Two squares sewed together out of a piece of fabric form the plan of the shelter, and eight equilateral triangles shape the roof. The structure then rises with the help of sixteen structural membranes that act as compression elements. In the design of this temporary shelter we take advantage of the simplicity of a tensile structure and adapt it to our needs. By adding a membrane that acts as a compression element we slightly compromise the simplicity of the structure to achieve a better design.
The only two materials used in the design of DIY-16 are fabric and structural membranes. The simple design allows us to choose from a wide variety of cheap materials, and perhaps recycle damaged materials in times of disasters. The fabric can be made from donated clothes, blankets, curtains, postindustrial fabric wastes, local fabric or furniture store wastes, yard sales, and etc. The membranes can be from damaged timbers, PVC or metal pipes, tool handles, different types of wood such as bamboo, pine, oak depending on their availability and their structural strength.
DIY-16 has been originally designed for Ashanti, Ghana, but was also proposed to Japan after the recent earthquake in 2011. After all DIY-16 is a “do it yourself” design because anyone can provide the materials and make the shelter with three easy steps: cut, sew, and fold.
>Credits<
Design: Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]
Project Team: Reza Aliabadi & Lailee Soleimani
Mock up basics:
Materials: 16 Basswood members each 3/4" x 3/4" x 96", sewed pieces of home used bedsheets
Weight: 20 lbs
Volume: Packed = 0.03 m3, Assembled = 4.75 m3 [158 times larger than when packed]
Assembly time: 3:24.05 minutes
Location: Ghana, Japan
Design: 2009-2010
Built: Fall 2010
DIY-16, concept diagrams
DIY-16, geometry
DIY-16, components
DIY-16, fabric detail
DIY-16, sew detail
