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NEX

SHELTER SOLUTION?

"

The idea
unfolded from
a conversation
I had with a
homeless man
I was sitting
next to on the
subway home
from work
one night.

The United States' largest city is facing its
often struggle to offer a space of
worst crisis of homelessness in decades.
comfort, safety, cleanliness, and
According to advocacy group the Coalition
privacy for its visitors."
for the Homeless, New York, New York,
The studio's concept is
USA has more than 62,000 men, women, and
comprised of hexagon-shaped
children sleeping in shelters, due in large part
housing units-similar to a
to "a chronic shortage of affordable housing
honeycomb-which will include
and the potent combination of rising rents and
3D-printed materials for an
stagnant wages," the group reports.
environmentally friendly and
Solving this crisis will take the work of
cost-effective construction.
many minds-including designers.
Homed units will adhere to the
"As high-level, creative thinkers,
exterior of buildings via large-Andreas Tjeldflaat
there is an opportunity to take
scale scaffolding. With this super
on leadership and initiate
structure construction, a building
roles in the creation of future
with an exterior wall measuring 50
housing," says Andreas
feet (15 meters) wide and 72 feet (22
Tjeldflaat, founder and design director
meters) high would be able to safely house 95 Homed units.
of innovation studio Framlab, based in
"The idea of using vertical space struck me as I
New York, New York, USA and Oslo,
was walking through lower Manhattan one afternoon,
Norway.
pondering how the myriad of idle vertical land around me
Homed, Framlab's conceptual design
might be utilized," Tjeldflaat says. "Knowing how land is
and recently proposed solution to homelessness,
one of the main drivers of cost when building in New York
brings together technology and cost-efficiency
City today, I thought it would be interesting to challenge
without sacrificing comfort and privacy-
what land might be."
something many spaces for the
Each Homed unit can accommodate a single
homeless lack.
occupant. Units for year-round residents will feature
"The idea unfolded from a
an entrance that locks, storage space, outlets, smart
conversation I had with a homeless
lighting, health monitoring, heat and sound insulation,
man I was sitting next to on the
and room ventilation.
subway home from work one night,"
Although the proposal is in response to the
Tjeldflaat says. "His decision to live on
homelessness in New York City, Homed can be deployed
the streets made me realize how shelters
in any urban environment around the world.

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Photos by: Framlab

"

Each Homed unit would provide
residents full privacy and a
beautiful view of the city.



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