If one copied my model exactly and made it into a real life emergency shelter, there would be a lot of problems. First of all, there are many spaces where water can come in, such as the bottom right corner of the shelter, which has a vertical space about 10 millimeters wide, and the top of the sides of the inclined plane, where there are huge gaps from the sides of the inclined plane to the inclined plane.

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 The reason why there are spaces where water is that I miscalculated and I didn’t think about the width of the Foam Board. Of course if one built an exact replica of my model and made a few changes and made it a lot bigger, a door would be included, and cushions. In the final design, I added in two workers so they could open and the close the door of the emergency shelter, but I didn’t want to add into the final model because the figurines that I would make either paper or Lego, would get lost, but I suppose I could have just put figurines IN the shelter so they don’t get lost or cleaned up by mistake.

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 The idea I made for saving people could actually work, if the real life emergency shelter was built perfectly with no spaces so water can’t come in, having someone add food to the cabinets, fill in the compressed air tanks, put a power box of some sort to power the emergency shelter, add lights to the shelter, build two boxes with windows and electricity by the door and hire two workers to sit in the boxes by the shelter until a tsunami comes. My client, Sara, and I think that my idea is very successful, making this shelter a choice for clients who want to have emergency shelters to save people from tsunamis.

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