Housing and Water, The RCSG-Project in BanglaDesh / Sunil Ganguly Centre for Catastrophe and Environment Protection
Saturday, October 3, 2015
By Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch
The term housing can be understood as a wider term for place of
residence and includes for example construction techniques using local
materials and traditional forms of construction up to Hi-Tech element
utilizing alternative technologies, in which concepts of re-cycling
(slums and autonomy (self-sufficiency) are implemented.
Extreme climatic and environmental conditions play an important role
in housing solutions. The spectrum of construction activities considering these factors
extend from steep coasts at and on seas up to those in stone ,ice and
sand deserts. Climate independent projects can be implemented at all places, where
changing climate plays an important role.
One should not be striving for an ideal type of housing rather
considering adaptation of housing solutions to local conditions.
Areas endangered by floods, storms and earthquakes around the globe
require special local based solutions.
Under the term “ Closed Systems” we understand projects with
completely different environmental conditions, which are not subject
to earthly climatic condition and influenced rather by metabolism and
production of water and oxygen, for example in space stations.
Such space stations appear at first utopian, however such a model of
closed system is interesting when considering global problems created
by changing climate and environmental conditions.
An example for housing under extreme environmental and climatic
conditions is the German Neumeier-Station the Antarctica. It serves
the research, but at the same time points to special construction
effort offering permanent experiences.
Natural catastrophes (earthquake in north India) and floods (Indus
region) have led to the search for suitable solutions for the affected
victims. There is no complete solution available as such but a number
of possibilities.
Immediate help from foreign countries and local construction experts
are needed and when these are not sufficiently available, integration
of construction students into such activity is necessary.
The same is valid for regions with similar natural catastrophes
(earthquake in South East India) and flooding affected areas
(Ganges/Padma and Brahmaputra/Jamuna).
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