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Unconventional Technology For Medium Rise Housing

Medium rise housing is proposed as a solution to address the massive demand for socialized housing and rising urban land costs. This involves building multiple-family dwellings in developed areas with jobs and services to accommodate more people. Specifically, prefabricated reinforced concrete apartment boxes or shelter components can be stacked to quickly construct medium rise buildings. This unconventional construction method is at least 45% cheaper and three times faster than conventional methods. The stacked box design meets structural requirements while reducing costs and expediting construction to help address the rapid rise in informal settlements in cities.

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Unconventional Technology For Medium Rise Housing

Medium rise housing is proposed as a solution to address the massive demand for socialized housing and rising urban land costs. This involves building multiple-family dwellings in developed areas with jobs and services to accommodate more people. Specifically, prefabricated reinforced concrete apartment boxes or shelter components can be stacked to quickly construct medium rise buildings. This unconventional construction method is at least 45% cheaper and three times faster than conventional methods. The stacked box design meets structural requirements while reducing costs and expediting construction to help address the rapid rise in informal settlements in cities.

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Jabat, Eleazer Phillip E.

HW#2
Housing TTH 4:30 – 6:00
UNCONVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR MEDIUM RISE HOUSING

From the previous class discussions, analyses of the informal settlers’ problem in urban centers are
determined and enumerated that resulted to the massive demand for socialized housing. At the same
time, the cost of urban land rises that challenged the government to establish a solution for the
increasing rate for housing needs.

The government answers the housing needs by building multiple-family dwellings in already
developed areas where jobs and basic services are available and the environment is at less risk. These
considerations are one of the factors why informal settlers exist; they build their houses where their
employment and businesses are at reach.

From the government analyses and considerations, medium rise housing comes into picture. Medium
rise housing is accurate as a remedy in limited resources of urban lands --- this is to increase density and
maximize utilization of high-cost urban land not only for residential but also for commercial purposes.
Also, government visions of a fast phase action in constructing these medium rise housing project to
cope up with the rapid increase of informal settlers in urban cities.

Speedy construction can be obtained by prefabricated several storeys with reinforced-concrete box
design on squatted lots with type of ownership like in condominium in order to accommodate most
informal settlers. These buildings consist of unitary, prefabricated, mass-produced, reinforced-concrete
shelter components or apartment boxes which can be erected according to an invention called the
Canchela Shelter Components and Stacking Process for Multi-Storey Buildings. The stacking process
involves at least two shelter components arranged alongside each other at a predetermined distance so
that one shelter component can be mounted on or straddle the top of the shoulder portions of the two
shelter components below it.

The Shelter Component as initially described


is a precast reinforced-concrete apartment box
open at both ends. Structurally speaking, the
box system design of each shelter component
or box and its anchored weld able steel plate
connections to contiguous shelter components,
meets the requirements of the National
Structural Code of the Philippines, to resist
stresses produced by lateral forces due to
earthquakes. This bearing wall system or box
system is a structural system without a
complete vertical load carrying space frame. In this system the required lateral forces are resisted by
shear walls. The cost of structure is at least45 per cent lower, with a thrice faster construction time,
than the conventional poured-on-site reinforced concrete, space-frame structural system of the same
size. This is due to the box design and the stacking process used. This new technology and construction
system reduces cost of structure, hastens construction time, shares expensive land cost and produces
decent housing affordable to the urban poor.

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