CURA // opensource

CURA is an open-source design for emergency COVID-19 hospitals.. It uses repurposed shipping containers to create plug-in Intensive-Care Units (ICU) with biocontainment through negative pressure

The first COVID-19 intensive care units have been installed at a hospital in Turin, Italy.

Developed by the Italian designers Carlo Ratti Associati in collaboration with MIT, the temporary, portable two-bed units could expand hospital space fast in nations struggling to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

Named CURA (“Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments,” an acronym that means “cure” in Latin), the units are quick to set up but provide all the features of normal isolation wards. Capable of being deployed in numerous configurations – either as self-standing groups of pods or connected to a hospital – the containers house all the equipment needed to treat two ICU patients, including beds, ventilators, monitors and intravenous fluid stands.

 

The units are connected via inflatable corridors that serve as a changing rooms and storage units, and use negative pressure “biocontainment” fans to remove infectious particles. Each pod, meanwhile, has glass windows that could allow visitors to get closer to their loved ones without placing them at risk of infection.

more info at curapods.org

CC4441 BY tomokazu hayakawa

内側から開閉出来き、下街へ情報発信される黒い物体。私たちは注意深く妻側の位置を検討し、コンテナ2本をぶった切って、丁寧に積上げた。

YEAR : 2014
CATEGORY : OFFICE　GALLERY
AREA : 37SQM/2F/TIMBER
PLACE : TAITO TOKYO JAPAN

PHOTO: KUNIAKI SASAGE

love LOTEK's daegu public library

Building type: Public Library (competition entry)
Location: Daegu, Korea
Size: 33,000 SF
Structural Consultant: Robert Silman Associates
Design: 2012

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The Structural and Technological Systems

The structure has been designed with careful attention to sustainable building systems and contemporary technology. It is composed of some 170 standard ISO shipping containers, which have been stacked cut on the outside and carved on the inside to create flowing interior spaces and sculptural curves. This approach offers substantial advantages in both economy and environmental sustainability. A complex and expressive form can be generated with an unusually efficient structural system. This creative “upcycling” of prefabricated components has an even more positive environmental impact than the standard recycling of building materials. By mobilizing prefabrication strategies, site work and building fabrication can happen simultaneously, and construction is substantially less disruptive to the ongoing life of the neighborhood and the community: it’s a model of simpler and cleaner construction that sets a tone of proficiency and serenity: a tone and feeling that carries over into the entire life of the building. 

+LOTEK: whitney studio

Client: The Whitney Museum of American Art
Building Type: Art Studio/Gallery
Location: New York City
Size: 720 SF
Design: 2011
Structural Consultant: Robert Silman Associates
Completion: 2012

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+LOTEK....carroll house

Client: Private
Building Type: single-family residence
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Size: 5,000 SF
Structural Consultant: Robert Silman Associates 
Mechanical Sustainability Consultant: Dagher Engineering 
Design: 2011 (currently under construction)

21 steel containers are collected and stacked. 
The stack is then cut diagonally along both the top and bottom, creating a striking profile that invokes Williamsburg's industrial past, while providing a sculptural nod to the rapidly changing neighborhood. The house is located in a typical corner lot in Brooklyn, measuring 25x100-feet. 
Transforming the containers’ assembly into a single-family residence, the diagonal cut generates a very enclosed and private monolith from the surrounding streets.
The diagonal also modifies the conventional ground-floor rear yard type and use, allocating private outdoor space at each level of the house.
Large glass doors allow access to each deck, offering light and cross ventilation at all levels.
A steel stair along the north wall connects all outdoor spaces. 
The house is currently under construction.

+ info: http://www.lot-ek.com/INDEX-1

micro lab by tsai design studio

safmarine container project: micro lab
community project in South Africa

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Library by Tsai Design Studio

Community Library in Cape Town, SA

The design for the Blikkiesdorp Library uses available resources such as pallets and containers to create an organic pattern that sets itself apart from the grided layout of the township.

The circular enclosure is intended to create a safe area for kids to play, learn and read. The simple layout tries to capture two essence of reading, namely the power of imagination and the power of knowledge.

Starting from the container library, the journey of reading extends into an intimate Reading Garden, and continues along a maze-like route made of hundreds of stacked pallets, leading to a big open space where a Secret Garden full of Trees of Knowledge can be found. The Secret Garden is a community space for kids made up of stacked seatings that can either double as an amphitheater or as a stage for events.

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colourful temporary café

 

 

 

A property developer hired Morag Myerscough to design and build a pop-up cafe to spruce up the area around the Greenwich rail station for the London Olympics. The result was the eye-popping Movement Café (MVMNT Café), which is built from recycled shipping containers, reusable scaffolding, and brightly painted wood walls. Constructed in only 16 days, the cafe was open just in time for the start of the Olympics to serve up locally sourced, food and drink - including homemade vegan-friendly gelato - to spectators headed out to Greenwich Park.