Her work explores putting porous boundaries between things at various scales and materiality. She is currently exploring sticky and stinky themes of comfort, air conditionoing, and sweat while working on a collaborative world building project, temporarily titled “surreal suburb” through a design collective, Unihoro Supply.
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Occupying empty lots as emergency housings during pandemic
- Site: (40.77,-73.97)
- Project timeline: 2019 - 2019 + 100 ma
- Author: Ahzin Nam
Studies have estimated the probability of novel disease outbreaks will increase three-fold in the next few decades based on the increasing rate at which novel pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 have broken loose human populations in the past 50 years.The density of cities leaves the vulnerable population - the elderly, disabled, chronic patients, and single parents - at larger risks of [ X ] novel pathogens. The project imagines methods of promptly occupying empty lots of high density metropolises with prefabricated modules that can be stacked onsite as temporary “evacuative” structures.
The living blocks are manufactured off-site and gets slotted into the shelves on-site.