Quarantine Nation - Isolate & Liberate -

Project idea

The exercise is to design a ‘Quarantine Shelter’ and ‘Self Isolation Pod’ for the neighbourhood we live in. People with Covid-19 symptoms should dwell in the pods for 14 – 21 days without transmitting the virus to family members and neighbours. The shelter is for one person or more in the form of individual pods or clusters.

Design Objectives
 Making interactions maintaining social distance.
 Reduce the psychological and physical effects of the people because of being isolated.
 Make visual connections among users.
 Facilitate recreation, play, exercise, relaxation & create friends.
 Well ventilated isolation pods to reduce the spread of the virus.
 Ability to convert into any emergency shelter.
 Prefabricated module structure which can be adaptable with the context

Project description

Open public spaces (Parks, Squares, Playgrounds, etc.) in the urban areas are not functioning and become dead spaces with pandemic situations in the country. Design Approach is to utilize these dead spaces with limited area to cater the surrounding neighbourhood in a pandemic situation.
The concept of the project is ‘Liberate within Isolation’. The idea is “Freedom from Isolation” which is 'a quarantine centre where users find the opportunity to liberate themselves from confinement’.
The proposal will encourage public engagement to prevent Covid-19 and will inspire the people to face the pandemic situation as a whole. 'The Caregivers' of the quarantine centre are the people from the neighbourhood after proper training. This will increase community services to social support.

Technical information

The proposed buildings are prefabricated module structures. These module structures are more sustainable and can be utilised in another pandemic situation.
The ‘Isolation Pods’ were designed using 2 nos. of 10ft long container boxes as the building material due to cost-effectiveness and quick assembly. The repetitive module structure to increase the ease of construction and decrease the construction time. The ‘Services Block’ was designed using already available and standardize materials enough for quick fabrication.

Documentation

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