
Japan Foundation Arts and Cultural Exchange
Exhibition of Japanese Sustainable Emergency Architecture for Disaster






According to international statistics, the Philippines is the first country prone to natural disasters. In short time The Visayas area has suffered the deadliest Philippines earthquake in 23 (Bohol, 15th of October) and the typhoon Yolanda (7th, 8th November) as deadliest Philippines typhoon on record. The natural disasters create special conditions for human survival where prevention, organization and the availability of technology must to be vital and urgent.A main needed in the affected area is, in a fast mode, safety and of a technologically efficient, is the emergency shelter, which must accommodate the victims and survivors immediately after the disaster. Also the temporary houses should be available, highly portable, easy to assemble, sustainable energy, conditioning to the area climate, with sanitizing solution and clean water for territory without functional infrastructures. This architecture should be further transitional, reusable and restockable. Its funtion does not have to accommodate the everyday, but it should be safe. Japan has developed several solutions to deal with natural disasters, in order to give to victims a safe and technologically efficient shelter in cases resulting fire, tsunami, earthquake or other inclement. This exhibition want to open to the Philippine society in Visayas the latest temporary architecture designs created by Japanese architects and Universities of architecture for the reconstruction of the tsunami areas affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.