Development of construction technique for temporary housing of disaster with shell structural unit by making use of plaster skill: Outline and experiments in scale model of building

After a disaster, it is needed to provide large amount of temporary houses promptly for people who lose their own houses. In this paper, a housing construction technique that is suitable for Japanese historical surroundings is proposed. It is making use of the Japanese traditional plaster technique inherited for hundreds years. And the frame of this system is the shell structure that is one of the most efficient structural system, therefore, it can be build with very little amount of material.