Disaster Relief Plat Form

A simple easy to produce, temporary housing platform to to aid in living conditions after a natural disaster

What's Going On

Survivors of natural disasters such as the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean or the 2009 earthquakes in Haiti are left homeless. As a result victims will construct shanty camps, neighborhoods, and towns to fit the need of shelter. These camps are crowded and typically very unclean. Residents live at ground level with the camps sewage, garbage and debris from the disaster. These living conditions cause the spread of disease and can contaminate living conditions for an entire family. Further natural forces such are wind and rain can batter and demolish these make shift encampments, causing more deaths, disease and hardship.

What We are Trying to Address

The concept behind the relief platform is simple, to give people a lift. By raising people 20 millimeters off the ground the majority of the the waste, debris and sewage will not longer contaminate a persons living area.