Showing posts with label trailer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trailer. Show all posts
Friday, January 14, 2011
The Changing Concept of Trailers - Polly Auyeung
While airstream trailers are superior to the models used in FEMA camps, using airstreams in the camps would not make them significantly better places to live. Similarly if average trailers were used as travelling shelters, people would still find them enjoyable. What needs to be questioned is the concept of the trailer, its purpose. By altering the conditions of its use, it affects how the trailer is perceived. The trailer (especially the Airstream) was originally designed to prompt americans to travel, to explore the land, "to place the great wide world at [their] doorsteps". As a FEMA camp unit, it was valued for its cheap production, easy transportation to the site, and packing efficiancy. Without the choice of movement, the fundamental idea of the trailer is lost. So though it succeeds as a luxurious, nomadic shelter, it is a failure when it's a cheap alternative to a fixed address.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
FEMA Trailer 3D Render - Juan Pablo Uribe
Compared to the Airstream's curved, single shell aluminum structure, the Springdale trailer is made up of a simple boxy structure clad with cheap aluminum siding.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
FEMA Trailer Detail - Felix Cheong
The following link goes to the patent application of a FEMA trailer construction method for the wall and how it connects.
Information Sources
Haub, Gregory et. al. "TRAILER, WALL CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD". Free Patents Online. 2008.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20090260305.pdf (Accessed January 13, 2010)
Information Sources
Haub, Gregory et. al. "TRAILER, WALL CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD". Free Patents Online. 2008.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20090260305.pdf (Accessed January 13, 2010)
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Airstream Construction Details - Felix Cheong
The following PDF outlines construction details of an Airstream. One of the aspects that make Airstream such an icon is its construction. The construction and specification of the Airstream trailer is what makes it unique since everything right down to the last bolt is custom for the use of Airstreams. The construction is very clean with connections that promote the form and mobility of the trailer. Its materials are also unique such as using aircraft aluminum for the outer shell. This is part of what makes the Airstream such a trademark. This PDF has almost everything from furniture construction, to chassis details, to rivets, bolts and handles that are used inside the airstream. If anyone needs to reference for details, structural axos, or plans and elevations you can probably find it here.
Information Sources:
Airstream. "2002 International Travel Trailer." Airstream. 2002
http://www.airstream.com/docs/2002%20Parts%20Books/2002%20International%20Trailer%20Parts%20Linked.pdf (Accessed January 13, 2010)
Information Sources:
Airstream. "2002 International Travel Trailer." Airstream. 2002
http://www.airstream.com/docs/2002%20Parts%20Books/2002%20International%20Trailer%20Parts%20Linked.pdf (Accessed January 13, 2010)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Formaldehyde problem in FEMA trailers - Milda Miskinyte
The levels of formaldehyde are so high in FEMA trailers that even employees aren't allowed to enter for long periods of time.
Information Sources:
Project Katrina. "FEMA's Formaldehyde Trailer Emails Exposed." Youtube. 2007
Information Sources:
Project Katrina. "FEMA's Formaldehyde Trailer Emails Exposed." Youtube. 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4lTNVlld-k (Accessed January 12, 2010)
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Example of a FEMA trailer - Milda Miskinyte
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Media References:
1. Keystone Springdale. "Floorplans". Springdale. 2009
http://keystone-springdale.com/index.php?page=floorplans&coast=east (Accessed January 10, 2010)
2. Keystone Springdale. "Construction". Springdale. 2009
http://keystone-springdale.com/index.php?page=construction (Accessed January 10, 2010)
http://keystone-springdale.com/index.php?page=floorplans&coast=east (Accessed January 10, 2010)
2. Keystone Springdale. "Construction". Springdale. 2009
http://keystone-springdale.com/index.php?page=construction (Accessed January 10, 2010)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Planning for Sheltering and Temporary Housing - Giles Hall
Emergency shelters are structurally sound and intended to be used for very short periods of less than twenty-four hours during and following the disaster. These facilities are often uncomfortable spaces with few amenities and are sparsely provisioned.
Temporary shelters provide facilities for individuals and families whose homes were damaged to the extent that they are no longer habitable. These usually exist for several days to several weeks, depending on how long it takes to find more normal living arrangements. These facilities have adequate sanitation facilities, sometimes food storage and preparation capabilities and can provide sleeping spaces for a few hundred people at a time. Sometimes these are indoor facilities (school gymnasiums or auditoriums) or tent cities.
Temporary housing is an intermediate stage for victims who still cannot return to their damaged homes but need housing, which allows them to return to their normal functions and tasks. These housing options are usually apartments or rental homes that evacuees use for several weeks to several years until victims can return to their original repaired or totally rebuilt homes. Victims who were renters before the disaster may skip this step entirely if appropriate rental units are available to them on a permanent basis. When rental properties are not available in the disaster-impacted area, FEMA has frequently made mobile homes available as temporary housing options, either situating a trailer on a property owner's lot (seen as more desirable by more property owners) or in mobile home parks that are in the vicinity ofthe damaged neighbourhoods (seen as less desirable from a community planning perspective, but acceptable since local residents can remain in or near the community).
Permanent (or replacement) housing is necessary when victims will never be able to return to their original homes. This occurs when the owners of the victims' rental properties have decided not to rebuild or to replace the rentals with higher cost dwellings or the victims cannot afford to rebuild their homes. If the vacancy rate in the disaster-affected area is low, disaster victims may need to relocate to other cities, counties/parishes, or states.
Long-term sheltering is needed for victims bussed or flown to temporary shelters in other states uncertain when/if they will be able to return. These must provide long-term services for the hurricane/flood victims. It is currently unknown how many residents who evacuated still need long-term sheltering; however, it should be assumed that most of them have lost their homes and their jobs, making them delayed victims of the hurricane.
Dynamic and fluid sheltering needs. Victims do not necessarily progress in a linear fashion through the four sheltering phases; nor do physical facilities provide only one type of sheltering. The Superdome, for example, served as a refuge of last resort prior to Katrina's landfall, then as an emergency shelter once flooding occurred in New Orleans, and finally as an unplanned temporary shelter for several days because of the delayed post impact evacuation.
Information Sources
Nigg, Joanne M., John Barnshaw, and Manuel R. Torres. 2006. Hurricane katrina and the flooding of new orleans: Emergent issues in sheltering and temporary housing. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 604, (, Shelter from the Storm: Repairing the National Emergency Management System after Hurricane Katrina) (Mar.): 113-28.
Temporary shelters provide facilities for individuals and families whose homes were damaged to the extent that they are no longer habitable. These usually exist for several days to several weeks, depending on how long it takes to find more normal living arrangements. These facilities have adequate sanitation facilities, sometimes food storage and preparation capabilities and can provide sleeping spaces for a few hundred people at a time. Sometimes these are indoor facilities (school gymnasiums or auditoriums) or tent cities.
Temporary housing is an intermediate stage for victims who still cannot return to their damaged homes but need housing, which allows them to return to their normal functions and tasks. These housing options are usually apartments or rental homes that evacuees use for several weeks to several years until victims can return to their original repaired or totally rebuilt homes. Victims who were renters before the disaster may skip this step entirely if appropriate rental units are available to them on a permanent basis. When rental properties are not available in the disaster-impacted area, FEMA has frequently made mobile homes available as temporary housing options, either situating a trailer on a property owner's lot (seen as more desirable by more property owners) or in mobile home parks that are in the vicinity ofthe damaged neighbourhoods (seen as less desirable from a community planning perspective, but acceptable since local residents can remain in or near the community).
Permanent (or replacement) housing is necessary when victims will never be able to return to their original homes. This occurs when the owners of the victims' rental properties have decided not to rebuild or to replace the rentals with higher cost dwellings or the victims cannot afford to rebuild their homes. If the vacancy rate in the disaster-affected area is low, disaster victims may need to relocate to other cities, counties/parishes, or states.
Long-term sheltering is needed for victims bussed or flown to temporary shelters in other states uncertain when/if they will be able to return. These must provide long-term services for the hurricane/flood victims. It is currently unknown how many residents who evacuated still need long-term sheltering; however, it should be assumed that most of them have lost their homes and their jobs, making them delayed victims of the hurricane.
Dynamic and fluid sheltering needs. Victims do not necessarily progress in a linear fashion through the four sheltering phases; nor do physical facilities provide only one type of sheltering. The Superdome, for example, served as a refuge of last resort prior to Katrina's landfall, then as an emergency shelter once flooding occurred in New Orleans, and finally as an unplanned temporary shelter for several days because of the delayed post impact evacuation.
Information Sources
Nigg, Joanne M., John Barnshaw, and Manuel R. Torres. 2006. Hurricane katrina and the flooding of new orleans: Emergent issues in sheltering and temporary housing. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 604, (, Shelter from the Storm: Repairing the National Emergency Management System after Hurricane Katrina) (Mar.): 113-28.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
FEMA Trailers Still in Use - Iggy So
20,000 trailers now in storage due to FEMA's lack of economical spending
Media References
1. Leslie Eaton. "FEMA sets date for closing Katrina trailer camps." New York Times. November 29, 2007.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/us/29trailer.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=fema%20camp&st=cse (Accessed January 7, 2010)
Airstream Classic Limited, Floorplan, 31' - Caelin Schneider
Information Sources
1. Airstream. "Classic Limited Floorplan". Airstream Inc. 2009
http://www.airstream.com/products/2010-fleet/travel-trailer/classic-limited/classic-limited-floorplans.html (Accessed January 7, 2010)
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