Emergency Shelters Design

This week for inquiry we were creating our own emergency shelter. An emergency shelter is a place that protects people from natural disasters.

First we looked at different types of shelters that are different shapes. We had to figure out if they were a good or bad shelter.

Next we thought and discussed what the shape of our shelter would be. My group decided that the shape should be a triangle. We thought this would be a good shelter against strong wind. 

Then we created our own shelter on sketch up. This app is used to create 3d models. 

Lastly we discussed which material would do best if this shelter was going to be created in real life. The best material we could think of was tungsten. Tungsten is a type of metal that is extremely rare to find. It cannot be broken either. 

If we could change specific things in our shelter, the things we would change are adding windows to see, another entrance to our shelter and probably taking out the legs and ropes.

We found this task difficult because it was hard trying to design our shelter but it was still fun learning how to create a shelter.

LI:To digitally model an emergency structure