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Home is a lightweight fold-able, portable homeless shelter designed for those without a night-time residence specifically in the Washington DC metro area as a temporary emergency shelter. It is branded with the same visual language as the metro system in an attempt to legitimize the homeless population’s station within society and start to address the negative stigma that follows them. Home takes advantage of simple geometric patterns to turn cost effective lightweight materials in a structure sturdy enough to withstand wind and rain. Home can be put up and taken down in a matter of seconds and can also be transformed into a half-dome shelter to shield against the sun. This is a conceptual project.

Created during my undergraduate study at James Madison University.