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Bangladesh live briefs T1 2018
PART A - Design a floating school
It is a hypothetical project to be presented to the Ministry in Bangladesh.
-only local materials and working force of the people, having no financial means and struggling to survive. The modern provision of solar energy in my opinion cannot be considered, the size of oil drums is standardized and are not available everywhere. Students need to consider the lifting capacity of drums, trunks of palm trees and whatever they can think of when designing the float/raft to establish the number of people the float can carry.
- Students need to undertake studies of the geography of the flat land, reports needs to be accessed of the areas affected by the disasters, strength of the hurricanes, height of sea waves, locations of governmental shelters, frequency of disasters and numbers of the people perished at each occasion.
- Consideration to be taken into account regarding river flooding during monsoon periods of the rivers Brahmaputra, Ganges and Meghna and the deposits of silt providing the extension of the land every year, causing the pressure of the population migrating towards the sea trying to occupy the land and find the place for their families. Since there is no authority to provide the map of the property of the villagers, the life is governed by the brutal force between individuals fighting for keeping and occupying small plots of land for their families, being the reason not leaving the place and moving to the governmental concrete shelters in time of hurricanes predicted days ahead by the authorities.
- students to be empathetic to the way of life and the people, with children having to work hard from the very early age, with the funerals under the roads- not to effect the precious cultivation land, never heard of toilets which are provided by the nature.
- students to conduct research on how to protect the villages against the force of the nature, the hurricane with the violet force of sea waves and problems caused by flooding of the rivers. How can the force of sea waves be diminished, how to join the floor of the raft to withstand the force of waves, not to break? The raft or the float when anchored should not float far way (students need to find the way of anchoring without steel chains) it should have a simple structure on the top providing shelter against heat when used for the school with the structure to blow away at the time of hurricanes.
PART B – Design of a safety belt against drowning to be made out of coconuts
It is a hypothetical project to be presented to the Ministry in Bangladesh.
-only local materials and working force of the people, having no financial means and struggling to survive. The modern provision of solar energy in my opinion cannot be considered, the size of oil drums is standardized and are not available everywhere. Students need to consider the lifting capacity of drums, trunks of palm trees and whatever they can think of when designing the float/raft to establish the number of people the float can carry.
- Students need to undertake studies of the geography of the flat land, reports needs to be accessed of the areas affected by the disasters, strength of the hurricanes, height of sea waves, locations of governmental shelters, frequency of disasters and numbers of the people perished at each occasion.
- Consideration to be taken into account regarding river flooding during monsoon periods of the rivers Brahmaputra, Ganges and Meghna and the deposits of silt providing the extension of the land every year, causing the pressure of the population migrating towards the sea trying to occupy the land and find the place for their families. Since there is no authority to provide the map of the property of the villagers, the life is governed by the brutal force between individuals fighting for keeping and occupying small plots of land for their families, being the reason not leaving the place and moving to the governmental concrete shelters in time of hurricanes predicted days ahead by the authorities.
- students to be empathetic to the way of life and the people, with children having to work hard from the very early age, with the funerals under the roads- not to effect the precious cultivation land, never heard of toilets which are provided by the nature.
- students to conduct research on how to protect the villages against the force of the nature, the hurricane with the violet force of sea waves and problems caused by flooding of the rivers. How can the force of sea waves be diminished, how to join the floor of the raft to withstand the force of waves, not to break? The raft or the float when anchored should not float far way (students need to find the way of anchoring without steel chains) it should have a simple structure on the top providing shelter against heat when used for the school with the structure to blow away at the time of hurricanes.
PART B – Design of a safety belt against drowning to be made out of coconuts
Coconuts are readily available in every village and its know that coconut can be in the water for 7 months without
and rotting.
Questions for the students.
How to make it simply, what is the size to carry a grown up man.
Is the belt the correct solution or coconut shells connected?
A prototype will be produced through Blender and 3D printing
How to make it simply, what is the size to carry a grown up man.
Is the belt the correct solution or coconut shells connected?
A prototype will be produced through Blender and 3D printing
