Rapidly Deployable Shelter project | Bahay Cono

This project is designing a new type of a shelter for Philippines typhoon situation. The goal of this project is to re-evaluate the social culture and the unique climate of the site through shelter designing process. The key idea of the Bahay Cono is a scissor-like deployable shelter that adapts to various weather conditions following a flood catastrophe in the Philippines. Rainy days in the Philippines, for example, require a steep roof and a higher floor to protect shelters from flooding. To tackle these environmental conditions, the Bahay Cono intends to create a reconfigurable scissor-like structure with an interlocking mechanism. Using local resources for the shelter's structural system, such as Bamboo profiles, reduce the environmental impact of transporting parts across long distances. Lightweight materials have been used to ease transportation and the assembly and disassembly processes. Solar thin films have been incorporated into the membrane envelope to provide an energy-independent housing. If the demands of the residents change over time, the shelter might be converted into a water collecting system for the community