From hemp to polystyrene, of bamboo up to recycled stones from the ruins of Haitian - here in Port-au-Prince are being tossed ideas on how the 200,000 residential and commercial buildings are built on top again, which had been destroyed a year before the earthquake. One year after the disaster, which destroyed large parts of the capital, the actual reconstruction in Port-au-Prince are still only begun. The roads are still an estimated ten million cubic meters rubble strewn. In a conference again adjourned finally gathered hundreds of international companies that the Caribbean country according to its own will "rebuild better". Foreign and domestic construction companies represents their Plans and dollhouse-size models of their ideas in an exhibition before.
"Our model is basically made of Styrofoam with a Zementguß" said the president of Scandia Pacific, Kim Christiansen, during the presentation of the material that had developed his, based in Kirkland, Washington company. He like to work with the foamed material, but his company will work with any substance that choose the Haitian people. "Haiti must be open to new ideas," he demanded. "Are pyramids made of stone and brick it for too long. Now her need something new. Something Precast." David Mosrie, the Push-design company Headquartered in North Carolina, criticized, however, that most construction companies represented abgäben only lip service to innovative building ideas. His imagined house is completely made from hemp, along drummed on fibers and modeled with a limestone product. Asked if it could also smoke, he laughed: "It would be 1130 kg needed to get drunk so much happiness.."
Contractors exchanged business cards and applications to the conference, but remained largely among themselves, represented because no donor Waen. Gabriel Verret, managing director of the transitional Commission for Reconstruction, has accused the international community, their own Pledges of aid for Haiti constantly evade. "Everyone always says 'debris removal, debris removal,'" he complained. "What shall I do with it? Carry away the stones by hand?" The transitional Commission had 52 million U.S. dollars for debris removal been made available. To the rubble, but really to bring out of town, 600 million are needed. Therefore suggested that some investors to use the exact distributed throughout the city ruins in the reconstruction of the battered country. Hugh Brennan, the Irish property expert from the NGO Haven works, currently in a pilot project that used a dump truck load debris, sorted, and then pressed into a Type wire basket is filled, from which will then arise walls of houses that are still plastered with cement. The first four Haven homes are being built in Croix-des-Bouquets outside Port-au-Prince. Its construction will cost 10,000 U.S. dollars, Oxfam America has already made available. Brennan hopes that the cost per house can be ultimately reduced to less than $ 5,000.
Tim Cornell Polehouses.com by contrast, offers to adjustable metal frames that can be covered with wood walls, styrofoam or bamboo. "We do not offer the house itself, but actually only the system," he said. Another company offers sculpted cement houses. "We have a shape and we pour the whole floor, the walls and ceiling in one step. It is a cube. From our standard sizes, you can build a room, two bedrooms and two stories, "Moshe Saldinger said of the Jamaican Ashtrom Building Systems Limited. An apartment or a one-bedroom house were of a piece, while a two-bedroom house . two parts were needed, the product will be transported to the site on a barge from Jamaica -. "just around the corner", based in Florida ALT Technologies LLC applied for the fair for the first time in their product "Polymer fiber columns reinforced with magnesium oxide" It is mold resistant. termites and watertight, "said Financial Secretary Terence Freeman." We had a piece of it tested for four years in a water tank. It has taken a drop "
Despite all the clever ideas that featured most of the participants the same questions. Where do we start where does the money come from for the reconstruction and what we provide with all the debris, however, were the answers? short supply. The transitional Commission was entrusted with the leadership role for the reconstruction and the channeling of international funds. But so far no money has appeared. Andres Duany submitted for the Prince of Wales Foundation, another idea for the reconstruction of Port-au-Prince. He suggested to leave the debris on the spot and the city about building. Buildings could therefore be about two feet higher and would be less vulnerable to flooding. The preferred by the Foundation, but also heavily criticized plan will invest in independent townhouses, which are equipped with individual power and water supply. This would first projects independently created by a long-term development plan for Haiti. "No matter what ideas one has if they can not be implemented quickly, they are worthless," said Duany, who has received global recognition as a designer of cities of the future a name. For if not developed during ideas überschlügen the events. According to experts, would be the reconstruction of a traditional street line in Port-au-Prince on an average of 154 million U.S. dollars. To build a block to the other - and to treat everyone as an autonomous body with its own ship - 3.5 million would cost per block. Even the old infrastructure was not the government can be maintained, Duany criticized. He had therefore asked many people, should go like it. No one said "Hey, how about efforts to restore the system from the 19th century again?" or "Would you like Paris?". There must be something modern, future-looking. Commissioned the development study was According to the Foundation of the Prince, the Haitian Central Bank. But said Tourism Minister Patrick Delatour, the Foundation plans would pass the regular Antragsweg confirmation by the government.
In any case dominated by single-family homes that were originally developed for rural areas, the exhibition. But most providers emphasized that their houses also sädtischen use plans can be customized. Moshe Saldinger was undecided whether the conference will help. "We have nice suits well maintained. But these people live outside in lousy plastic bags. We have to put something happen, "he urged the government said Defence Minister Delatour." In my position I have to look at that whole picture ... And as it is now, we currently need to specify the construction of the next 20 years "
own translation of the English original. Heike fritz
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