Digital Fabrication.

NMHIS.

M1 Fabrication Course.
Sudbury Ontario.

Partner: Thomas Vanderkruk

Within this past year homelessness in the North has surged, presenting a severe basic human need for shelter. The lack of available space within shelters, and the need for protection against the harsh northern climate has left for a significant need for a more protective semi-permanent solution: NMHIS [No More Homelessness In Sudbury].

Combining the design needs for an inexpensive, durable, portable and healthy shelter, this zero waste living solution has emerged. Explored parametrically through a series of scalable boxes serving as the main structural component of the emergency shelter; these living pods offer a growth based living solution. Insulated by mycelium panels within each box: these panels have been designed to grow and adapt to whatever dimension of box provided, filled with waste from the agricultural industry and by-product from any cutoffs of the structures plywood, eliminating all material waste.

This parametric assembly was designed in Grasshopper, Revit, and Rhino-Inside.
Mycelium.