Anushka Sachin Kantak - Healthcare as an instrument

Since the advent of modern hospitals, healthcare has been confined to fixed institutional space that lacks flexibility. The thesis aims to rethink the hospital and focus on healthcare delivery by creating mobile healthcare spaces that can be assembled on demand.

Using inflatable architecture, the project conceives healthcare as a prosthetic extension of a residential space that functions not only for treatment and recovery but also quarantine.

A quarantine kit that can be delivered at your doorstep during a pandemic with a bed, bath, water-closet, oxygen tank, inflation pump, medicines and other essential items.

Animation showing inflation of the material around the kit that may take shape of a pre-existing space and keep your furniture unaffected/uninfected by a pandemic.

Early progress work Section Showing Inflatable bubble in a Multi-floor apartment condition

Early progress work Section showing an inside-outside condition

Animated plan showing the quarantine kit being inflated and used in a house.

Section showing social interaction with

'Living inside the bubble', a social experiment showcasing social interaction inside an inflated material in a pre-existing apartment.

'Living inside the bubble', a personal social experiment showcasing social interaction inside an inflated material in a pre-existing apartment.