MT CRAWFORD'S QUARANTINE FACILITY

from Thomas Zhou Architecture Portfolio 2023

MT CRAWFORD'S QUARANTINE FACILITY

MT CRAWFORD'S QUARANTINE FACILITY_INTERACTION

Programmatically, the quarantine facility is conceived as a ‘selfcontained environment', that fundamentally transports the traveller from the bottom to the surroundings of the facility through the core of the centre. In terms of circulation, the quarantine facility is completely isolated from the renovated existing building however they have connected through corridors in between the courtyard in the forms. This idea of interaction is translated into the interior of the quarantine pods where each pod attributes a series of view platforms which protrude into the open space, providing unique places for quarantine travellers.

The intention of the design is aim to design the architecture itself as part of the cure. The combination of architecture with psychology occupies an important investigation to quarantine facilities, particularly when people have spent two weeks in a confined and narrow space. Although the quarantine pods are closed spaces as part of a barrier system for controlled access and isolation, the individual pod between each other is distributed along the ring-shaped building skin and closely relies on each other fundamentally transforming the passive behaviours of isolation into active user experience and remaining socially connected simultaneously. In terms of the interaction with the natural environment, the extended quarantine pods delicately embedded narratives within the spatial experience, and consciously design the unobstructed view communal courtyard to explore more possibilities for every user to interact with the outdoors from indoors.