Any disaster of this nature leads to a considerable amount of loss to an individual on a personal level, or to a community on a greater magnitude, which creates the necessity to develop a systematic approach to tackle, the core impacts of any disaster. One such tool to tackle these after-effects of disasters is the provision of temporary shelters as part of the rescue operations in the post-disaster management stage because it is one of the basic needs of survival apart from food and clothing that one needs in such helpless circumstances. These shelters primarily aim for the temporary accommodation of victims who have been affected by a catastrophic event which ruined their livelihood and made their living very vulnerable. This paper facilitates understanding the key factors that affect the design aspect of these shelters on the whole which include economic, environmental, technical, and socio-cultural factors. This study also includes the identification of hazards which the design has to withstand to meet its very purpose of protecting the affected victims under any extreme conditions. In spite of the construction of these kinds of temporary structures for the accommodation of victims as part of response and recovery phase after the occurrence of a disaster, it was observed that the victims prefer to stay at the residence of their friends and relatives rather than utilizing these facilities which are intended for their survival.