Housing has become an outstanding issue for refugees displaced by natural disasters and war across the globe. Refugee housing has often been created for temporary use, not taking into consideration that these individuals need proper and more permanent housing. This project presents a design framework and offers one solution for constructing semi-modular refugee housing in Armenia that integrates proper structural and mechanical systems. These systems ensure the complex is sustainable, economically feasible and more permanent to fit the needs of a range of family units.

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Creator

• Bishop, Katherine
• Valentine, James
• Varjabedian, Lara

Subject

• Well-Being
• Infrastructure

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042822-113825
• 65186

Keyword

• Sustainable
• Modular
• Shipping Container
• Armenia

Advisor

• Albano, Leonard D.
• Farzin, Soroush

Year

• 2022

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Date created

• 2022-04-28

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Architectural Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright