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SO? Creates Floating Shelter For Post-Earthquake Istanbul

Fold and Float Emergency Shelter / SO?

Kayhan Kaygusuz

Turkish practice SO? has created a prototype floating shelter which could be used as emergency housing following an earthquake in Istanbul. The prototype, named Fold and Float, is designed to be emergency accommodation for up to six people following an earthquake.

Designated emergency assembly points in the case of an earthquake in Istanbul were announced in 2001. Since then, most of these public spaces have been built up, which raises the question of where everyone will be housed in the case of emergency.

The idea of designing a speculative prototype of a floating emergency house came out of this fact: what if the response is not about stable land, but manageable water? Fold and Float is now floating on Golden Horn the area that will not be impacted by an earthquake’s tsunami. The prototype can be seen floating at the Earth School satellite at Rahmi M. Koç Museum.

 Fold and Float Emergency Shelter / SO?

Fold and Float, is a foldable structure made out of light steel construction, specially developed for emergency situations. Its light and foldable structure provides rapid and easy installation in the case of an emergency. The unit is composed of two main parts: upper structure that includes all the fixed furniture folded and implemented, and a floating pontoon made of concrete. The idea of a foldable unit which comes fully equipped is the result of research displaying that earthquake victims generally spend at least 1 year in temporary housing after the disaster.

 Fold and Float Emergency Shelter / SO?

Hope On Water has been created as part of the Istanbul Design Biennial 2018 as a collaboration with civil engineering and sociology students from Boğaziçi University and architecture students from MEF University. The educational project was run by Ayfer Bartu Candan, Emre Otay, Oral Goktas and Sevince Bayrak.
 
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