design of massive residential buildings with the approach of lexible spaces for post-earthquake settlement: case study kermanshah city

Crisis management is one of the critical sections of management before and after of any disaster like earthquake. at the macro level of the national management, it can play a significant role in reducing casualties, financial losses and even external threats. crisis management is not even limited to the after earthquake's time but also includes pre-earthquake periods such as public education, predictions to provide shelters, suitable housing in case of incident outreach ways, food forecast, first aid, etc. therefore, one of the main tasks of crisis management organization is planning of emergency housing, temporary accommodation, and then permanent habitation of injured people due to the earthquake. based on social and cultural conditions, architecture, also available materials in the region, and common construction methods in the damaged areas, various methods for temporary accommodation have been proposed. experiences of using these methods in previous earthquakes are available in the literature such as clad structures, temporary building structures, containers, etc among all the methods. the six parameters include managerial, social, psychological, economic, architectural, structural and functional issues. this research has investigated the components extracted from the research literature in order to investigate the question and hypothesis research using ahp analytical method. in this paper, a new method using multipurpose containers is suggested for temporary accommodation after seismic disaster as a useful tool in crisis management.