EMERGENCY REFUGE DESIGN WITH PLEGABLE SYSTEMS

Abstract

The following research was developed on the basis of emerging spaces, as the growing need for temporary spaces is elevated by the natural disasters that are more frequent, so this study was based on generating and designing a folding system that can help to form faster and more itinerant spaces, specific to the Mexican Red Cross, as it does not currently have any emerging structural system of its own. So the present research focuses on designing and building a transformable system based on the method developed by Dr. Félix Escrig, which gave us the concepts to develop a better proposal and generate faster transformable systems. This led us to analyze digital models that were simulated with WinTess software that performed the structural analysis of these folding structures with a textile membrane, this helped us to verify the structural safety of the model, addressed the design of the node with a series of digital models that gave us premises and dimensions to propose a more flexible articulation for its manufacture.

Keywords: Emerging Spaces, Light Covers, Folding Systems, Constructive Details and Structural Simulation.