In an On Society blog post, Pallavi Tiwari talks about a paper that proposes a design model to give refugee communities a chance to achieve greater resilience and self-sustainability during crisis situations and enhance their quality of life.
Picture by Ahmed Akacha via PexelsAs of March 28th, 2023, with more than 57,000 people who died after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit Turkey on February 6th 2023, Turkey has been left with infrastructure and facilities damage, injured and displaced refugees. Like any earthquake that reaches this magnitude, the survivors will have to cope with the series of aftershocks with magnitude varying between 7.5 and less, lasting for a longer time frame.
On one hand, these settlements suffer from conflicts and environmental pressures and on the other hand, they also bear the inadequacies of services and facilities. This increases the refugee population’s susceptibility to climatic and environmental extremes as well as a poor quality of life. We are not proposing that these emergency settlements should be planned as cities that are there to stay permanently, but we profess the idea of resilient cities on emergency shelters to better mitigate the pressures by designing flexible structures that can be shifted or moved.
We demonstrate how this model can be adapted in a context like Dalhamyie settlement in Bekaa, Lebanon by applying the strategies through a master plan guiding the development in the camp.
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