Shipping Container as Shelter Provision Solution for Post-Disaster Reconstruction

Abstract

The emerging of shipping container house can help to relief the challenging issue in provision of dwelling in certain countries with overpopulation or surge of refugee. However, the suitability of shipping container, which is initially designed for transportation purpose, for shelter usage is not well understand. This paper aims to understand the current research on the technical aspect of container for shelter provision and the gaps of knowledges. Literature review is done on the up-to-date research about the container shelter and the potential of container shelter is summarized. From the study, shipping container can be suitable for shelter provision with some improvement to be done.