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In an effort to carry our studio work beyond Greensboro's borders, we were instructed to choose a natural disaster and assume a victim from a video to be our client. We were to design something to prevent or ease the affects of the natural disaster. Our group decided to focus on earthquakes, and was particularly affected by the recent and devastating earthquake that occurred in China. Please follow the link below to meet our client; a father whose only son was killed when his school collapsed in the earthquake. We developed our design with all of the young victims' parents in mind.

Client: Father; Son lost in Sichuan Earthquake

www.worstearthquake.com

We chose to design a central "safe room" for schools, which would be easily accessible by every area of the school, and perhaps also act as the cafeteria. This would be a heavily reinforced, dome-shaped structure for children and teachers. The following images and sketch models document it's construction.








It is suggested that in the event of an earthquake, one should stay low to the ground, indoors, under a strong object. These desks would act as emergency earthquake shelters, in the event that children could not reach the "safe room" in time. They would be constructed using building techniques incorporated into the foundations of earthquake-resistant homes. The would also have a titanium frame anchored into the foundation for rigid support.