RIZAL TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
SY-2017-2018

A TRANSPORTBLE EVACUATION CENTER

NARRATIVE REPORT

Recent phenomena has left the Philippine government in difficult predicament when typhoons
Ondoy, Pablo, Quinta, in recent memory, left several provinces devastated in its aftermath.
Consequently many families were left homeless and had to survive by staying in the district high
schools or grade schools that were located in the areas of their domicile. As a result, schools
were suspended for the duration of their stay and students were faced with an incomplete
education during the time of the occupancy by the survivors in their respective schools. The
student education suffers for these theyre time for learning are compromise.

Further, many of the evacuation centers and educational facilities are not capable of handling
the population that were housed in the areas, so much so that many individuals, especially
children, became ill from their stay. Because of this things MANDALUYONG CITY proposed A
TRANSPORTABLE EVACUATION CENTER where the needs of the evacuees are in the
container van

The main concept of this transportable evacuation center is turn a 20-foot container van
into a evacuation center. A standard shipping container packed with all the essentials to
set up an evacuation site, including water, electricity and administrative and medical
center. The container vans and its components may be disassembled for easy transport and
storage whenever it is not in use and shall be stored at the regional warehouses of either the
Department of Health, the Office of Civil Defense or the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction
Management offices.

The structure, having its primary purpose as an evacuation center, is expected to withstand
disasters like typhoons and earthquakes and continue to serve the people who are supposed to
use it. Because of this reason we decided to use bamboo as our concept. Bamboo also
symbolize long life in Chinese and friendship in India. It regenerates and resilient before and
even after strong typhoons. Because of this things we decide that bamboo is the best concept
for the transportable evacuation center. The resiliency of bamboo must be the characteristic of
the given project because if evacuation is resilient it can stand before, during, and even after the
strong typhoon. Also because it is resilient it can save lives, save lives and properties, minimize
sufferings, and deal with the immediate damage caused by the disaster.

Before we start planning, we consider different such as Planning ( Circulation, Accessibility,

Form), Safety (Physical safety, Personal privacy, Fire exits), and Flexibility ( ramps, container
van, utility). This consideration we serve as guide for us to create a functional evacuation
center. We used the figure ground theory in assembling the container vans. We arrange the
container van to form a hexagon so that we can use the space in the middle and then we start
planning.

We used truck in delivering the container van to the area where evacuation center is needed
and for easy transport and storage whenever it is not in use and shall be stored at the regional
warehouses of either the Department of Health, the Office of Civil Defense or the Regional
Disaster Risk Reduction Management offices. The container van will be the one who will go the
affected areas.

The container van that serve as their evacuation center are packed with all the essentials to set
up an evacuation site, including water, electricity and administrative and medical center. The
size of the container van is 8x8x20

That is the plain view of the container van. As you can see it is packed with all the essentials to
set up an evacuation site, including water, electricity and administrative and medical center. We
ensure that the evacuation centers are provided with the basic needs such as but not limited to
foods, clothing's, domestic items, hygiene materials, and other essential nonfood materials and
also that the Basic Medical and Public Health services are available 24/7. we also provide
opportunities, in case of prolonged evacuation, for recovery, rehabilitation and developmental
activities through work group/team/room organizing activities, skills development and engaging
income generating projects which facilitate recovery of the evacuees to normal family life. And
provide temporary refuge to individual families who are potentially at risk or in actual danger
because of the hazard

The use light materials like tolda, tents, metal post, wood, and G.I iron. We also use
folded chairs and tables, and portable cubicles. This things are easy to assemble and easy
to dissemble for to dont hard time in assembling the evacuation center. This thing are all in the
container van and will be back inside the container van whenever it is not use.

We hope that this thing may help and to save lives and properties, minimize sufferings, and deal
with the immediate damage caused by the disaster.

GROUP 10 ( CEIT-01-501A)

Lualhati, John Rommin

Bundang, Remanuel

Abonita, Faith

Carolino, Carla