Moving on up

The second project of the semester moves the quarantine site off the human body and brings it to a scale of one whole person. Our site is located at the Erato Street Cruise Terminal in the Port of New Orleans. Today we are going to visit the site to do an analysis of the elements and details of the area.

In my preliminary research and concept building I decided on several things. I am going to attempt to keep a strong connection to the concept of my first project - The Plague Tie. The idea I would like to carry over is the technique of filtration. Without contact with aerosol droplets containing the disease or the carrier insects and mammals the disease can be effectively prevented. Thus, the facility or environment created does not have to be airtight. I would also like to carry over the concept of taking something and transforming it for added uses. This time instead of masking the properties within the object, I would like to change the object for a visible difference to show its new function.

After considering several options of materiality and structure I decided I had two interests - folding and container architecture. Of which i have never seen the two combined in any way, except for one art piece my research brought me to.

I think one of the larger and more overall challenges of this project is to create a container that will stand out against the other more published container architecture solutions. There are hundreds or even thousands of published projects for container uses, however none to deal with folding and few to deal with quarantine.

Next step making it 100% sustainable and off the grid.