LAVA

LABORATORY FOR VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE

DIGITAL ORIGAMI EMERGENCY SHELTER

  • Client:
  • Emergency Shelter exhibition
  • Location:
  • Sydney, Australia
  • Partners:
  • Keystone Projects; CHH Wood; Staging Rentals
  • Status:
  • Built 2011
  • Size:
  • 2.4mc


ABOUT

Disaster
 strikes.
 How 
can
 architects
 help
 quickly,
 efficiently,
 sustainably
 and
 sensitively?

LAVA's
 solution 
was
 an
 origami
 cave.
 Based on a water-molecule, it references the Japanese Metabolist movement’s idea of prefabricated capsules as living space. 

The
 base
 molecule
 can
 be
 shipped
 as
 a 
flat
pack,
 cut
 out
 of 
local 
plywood with the interior carved out of locally available materials or
 dropped
 off
 by 
a 
helicopter.
 The
 project
 plays
 with 
ideas 
of
 prefabrication
 and 
stacking 
of 
multiple
 units. Each
 unit
 contains
 sleeping 
space 
for
 two 
adults
 and 
one
 child
 as 
well
 as space 
for
 eating
 and
 reading.
 Battery 
or
 solar
 operated
 LED
 light
 brings
 the
 shelter
 to
 life,
 turning 
it 
into
 a
 lantern,
 a
 sign
 of 
hope.
 

A scale model featured in the Emergency Shelter exhibition, in Sydney. www.emergencyshelteraustralia.com

 

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Design: Toko / Development: Damien Aistrope