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INTRODUCTION
2. COMMUNITY CONTAINERS
2.1 SITE PLAN
2.2 SITE ROOF PLAN
2.3 VISUALISATIONS
2.4 LIBRARY BOX
2.5 COUNSELING BOX
2.6 MEDICAL BOX
3. CONTRIBUTORS

CONTENTS

It happened at 2.28pm on 12 May 2008

- Chinas worst earthquake in 30 years, spread out from an epicenter 80
kilometers northwest of Chengdu, in the Sichuan Province
- 70,000 people estimated killed
- 20,000 people listed as missing
- 350,000 people injured
Relief efforts now turn their attention towards the estimated 11 million people
left homeless and displaced across the Sichuan Province.
Hands On Chengdu Community Flowers is one of these relief efforts.
Our goal is to provide Recovery to as many people as possible in the Sichuan
Province, as quickly as possible.
We will achieve this goal by delivering shipping containers that are converted into
Medical Rooms
Libraries
Counseling Rooms
Children Play Rooms
Please support this cause for direct action to deliver the frst wave of shipping
containers within 6 weeks
Your support will help many lives
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1. INTRODUCTION

Community Flowers
Recycling shipping containers is a fast and cost effective way to provide
support for communities made homeless by the Sichuan earthquake.
The shipping containers are intended as a short to medium term solution,
until such time as the Government completes the vast rebuilding of the
Provinces infrastructure, including schools and hospitals, which will take
several years.
Community Flowers pursues a simple strategy; to take the widely available
shipping container, line the interior walls to keep the interior cool in summer
and warm in winter, insert windows for natural light and ventilation, and plan
the interior with furniture and fttings that are ft for its intended purpose. The
modular shipping container can be transported by truck to its destination,
placed on the ground by a crane, plugged into a power supply and operational
immediately.
In section 2, a range of community support facilities are illustrated,
comprising of a Medical Box, a Library Box and a Counseling Box. The
containers are arranged on site like the petals on a fower, outward looking,
opening up sheltered spaces for people to gather, rest and recover. The
number of containers forming a cluster will respond to the specifc needs of
each location.

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Richard Brubaker: rich@handsonchengdu.org

1. INTRODUCTION

For more information, sponsorship and donations:

www.handsonchengdu.org
2.1 SITE PLAN

2.2 SITE ROOF PLAN

2.3 VISUALISATION

2.3 VISUALISATION

2.3 VISUALISATION

2.3 VISUALISATION

2.4 LIBRARY BOX

2.4 LIBRARY BOX

2.5 COUSELING BOX

2.5 COUSELING BOX

2.6 MEDICAL BOX

2.6 MEDICAL BOX

CHARITY
3.CONTRIBUTORS

DESIGN TEAM
RFR FACADE ENGINEERS ARUP ENGINEERS
SMC ALSOP ARCHITECTS
CONTACT:
WWW.HANDSONCHENGDU.ORG
Richard Brubaker: rich@handsonchengdu.org
3.CONTRIBUTORS

PROJECT MANAGERS