The Safety Design Strategy of Stadium as Earthquake Shelter
Earthquake emergency shelter is one of the basic space medium for disaster response & assistance and a significant part of emergency relief in the urban space system. Stadium is able to evacuate large crowds instantaneously, therefore it becomes an essential shelter during disasters. During the 5.12 Sichuan Earthquake in 2008, some stadiums at the forefront of disaster played an important role in reception and housing the homeless. According to official statistics from the Mianyang City Earthquake Relief Headquarters, there were 30 000-40 000 quake-affected people settled in the stadiums and gymnasiums during the first 5 days after the earthquake. Stadiums have always been designated as emergency shelter in America (Figure 1), such as Ford Center in Oklahoma City was appointed as a typhoon shelter; Giants Stadium in New Jersey and Shea Stadium in New York served for disaster transfer facilities since the 9/11 Events; Superdome in New Orleans and Astrodome in Houston took up of sheltering victims during the Hurricane Katrina in 2007. Japan attached great importance to disaster prevention and control, accumulated much experience of emergency shelter construction. Mostly their disaster prevention facilities combined with sports facilities and city parks, Disaster Preparing Center, Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and natural environments together constituted country scope wide-area disaster prevention base.
Stadium Disaster Response Earthquake Shelter Safety Design Disaster Prevention Facilities
Ying Liu Shiliang Lu
School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
国际会议
International Disaster and Risk Conference Chengdu 2009(2009 中国成都国际灾害风险大会论坛)
成都
英文
475-481
2009-07-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）