Inhabiting the disaster: urgent projects in emerging situations

Abstract

In recent years, not only brazilian population, but the whole world has been affected by excessive rainfall water. In spite of being the result of exceptional circumstances, inhabiting the disaster is a fundamentally contemporary issue, a problem that requires a deeper study of its formation, construction, installation, permanence, recurrence and, above all, its consequences. This article presents initial research results of the study "Emergency Design: Project of Furniture and Equipment for Temporary Shelters to Groups Affected by Disasters Related to Rainfall". The research aims to make a pilot project, taking the Eldorado city as case study, which proposal can be replicated in other cities in Ribeira valley, constantly affected by rain. As result are expected studies about possible deployments of temporary shelters and other facilities necessary to attend disasters, with design of furniture and equipment developed from aspirations of a collaborative group with experience in emergency flood situation. This article reflects primarily on the spatiality of temporary shelters. It presents the research and its methodology, it discusses the results of a participatory experience, it analyzes equipment solutions for the practice of rehabilitation and it suggests resets to a socially engaged architecture.