MT CRAWFORD'S QUARANTINE FACILITY

You can't build an entire separate infrastructure to sit there empty in case of a pandemic, but you can build a shadow pandemic architecture into your existing architecture by thinking through your needs. Can you mandate that these large structures are transformable?

Geoff Manaugh

Mt Crawford's Quarantine Facility

This project presents an opportunity to investigate other architectural possibilities for quarantine in the Wellington area, aims to test and explore the physical, ethical, spatial, social, political and temporal aspects of quarantine through the design of a quarantine facility. As hotels today have been re-purposed to provide temporary shelter to isolate travellers, however, this may not be the best long-term solution as humans are a social species. This project investigates the typology of contemporary quarantine and how to maintain physical isolation while remaining socially connected. The principal aim of this project is to explore how can architecture be used to deal with future pandemics.

The project investigation asks:

How can quarantine infrastructure include other programmes or be reconfigured to extend its use beyond the immediate need for quarantine?

Design Tutor: Victoria Willocks

Project Stream: Conceptual Architecture Stream TZ