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Developing a Design Framework for Disaster Resilience Flood Evacuation Centre in Malaysia

Table 1: Research summary

Research questions Research objectives Research methodologies Methods of analysis
What are the minimum shelter design standards in a flood evacuation centre? To determine the shelter design standards in current flood evacuation centre Document analysis Content analysis and validation survey with disaster experts
What are the current space allocations and designs in a flood evacuation centre? To what extend have the centres in Malaysia comply to the shelter standards? To determine the designs and spaces provided (and its compliance to shelter standards) in current flood evacuation centre Case study Crosschecking with building checklist and thematic analysis site observation
How can these standards and spaces be formed to create resilient factors in a flood evacuation centre? To define the resilience factors of the centre and to give measures of resilience to centre. Semi-structured interviews Transcribing interviews for construct validity and reliability
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