Temporary Hospital Shelter for a Developed-Country City#
An emergency-design brief about rapidly deployable temporary hospital shelters for a disease outbreak in a developed-country city.
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Quick Facts#
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Taxonomy#
- Formulation
textual_prompt
- Is Dynamic
no
- Orientation
engineering_practical
- Objective Mode
qualitative
- Constraint Nature
embedded-constraints
- Tags
text,human-subjects,design,emergency,healthcare,shelter- Deliverable Type
concepts
- Timebox Hint (Minutes)
60
- Participants
individual
- Evaluation Mode
idea_generation
Statement#
A highly contagious and deadly disease called “anthrax-d5” is spreading across a city in a developed country. This disease is transmitted only through contaminated food and water. A person infected with this disease needs to be hospitalized in order to save his/her life.
The spread of this disease is such that the existing healthcare infrastructure (i.e. available number of hospitals) is inadequate to hospitalize and treat the large number of infected people. There is an urgent need to erect a number of temporary shelters that can be used as hospitals.
For the city in the developed country, where the “anthrax-d5” is spreading at an enormous rate, design such a temporary shelter that can be used to hospitalize 5 infected people (per shelter). Each shelter also needs to accommodate basic healthcare facilities and healthcare staff consisting of 1 nurse. The time to install this shelter must be less than 2 hours. The shelter also needs to withstand different types of weather conditions.
Prompt Profile#
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Deliverable Type |
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Timebox Hint (Minutes) |
60 |
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idea_generation |
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Jagtap, Larsson, Hiort, Olander, Warell, and Khadilkar (2013). Fighting Poverty Through Design: Comparing Design Processes for the Base and the Top of the World Income Pyramid. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED13). |
Raw Citation Records#
Jagtap, Santosh, Andreas Larsson, Viktor Hiort, Elin Olander, Anders Warell, and Pramod Khadilkar (2013). Fighting Poverty Through Design: Comparing Design Processes for the Base and the Top of the World Income Pyramid. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED13).