TEMPORARY/PERMANENT:
EXPLORATION OF POST DISASTER HOUSING FROM EMERGENCY SHELTERS TO PERMANENT HOUSING

This paper is a discussion on the possibility of managing a facilitated passage to permanent housing which is the nearest point to the normalcy stage from the first moment of disaster through a well planned preparation, design and construction process. Lacking of proper planning and design for disaster areas, usually result with quick, mass produced structures on unprepared land, with sometimes inappropriate material and form. These choices have consequences physically in means of non-effective usage of resources and also have consequences in means of prolonging and strengthening the post disaster psychological affects.  Within this paper different cases are evaluated in means of their housing provision processes, strategies, failures and successes from temporary shelter to permanent housing from Kobe 1995 earthquake and fire; Northridge 1994 earthquake; Marmara Earthquakes (Aug, Nov,1999); Mexico City 1985 earthquake; Gediz 1970 earthquake etc.

Evaluation of these cases concludes with an exemplifying of a workshop method for designing these stages in the architecture education. This workshop module titled ‘Temporary |Permanent’  have been carried at Bergen School of Architecture by the author  with master students and a group of 3rd and 4th year students as a complimentary to their normal curricula. With the aim of exploration of new methods to design post disaster housing structures in the more effective and sustainable way with low cost, this paper finalizes with exemplifying this workshop method as a tool to explore the possible stages through emergency shelter to permanent housing stage.