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Foldable Disaster Shelter - An EPS@ISEP 2020 Project

2022; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-030-93904-5_16

2367-3370

Daniela-Andreea Popescu, Eduardo Pereira, Gabriel Givanovitch, Jelte Bakker, Lore Pauwels, Vladimir Dukoski, Benedita Malheiro, Cristina Ribeiro, Jorge Justo, Manuel F. Silva, Paulo Ferreira, Pedro Guedes,

Disaster Management and Resilience

This paper reports the research and design of a foldable disaster shelter for people left homeless due to natural disasters, by a multinational team composed of six students, from six different countries. The team was enrolled in the European Project Semester (EPS), a project-based capstone programme offered by Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), to students who have completed at least two years of undergraduate studies. The main objective of the project was to design, simulate and test an ethics and sustainability driven foldable shelter. This goal was pursued by conducting a series of studies to derive the solution requirements, involving a survey on shelter concepts and solutions, a review on worldwide natural disasters, as well as an analysis of the shelter market. The latter led to the definition of a business plan, a marketing strategy, a logo and a brand name. The solution comes with a Web application to help rescue organisations to follow the scheduled maintenance plan and keep track of the deployed units.