Doonya Shop and Home for Homeless by Jackie Lai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award in Social Design Competition Category.
IronSocial· 2022
Doonya Shop and Home for Homeless
by Jackie Lai
Client: Doonya
A' Design Award Winner in Social Category
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About Doonya Shop and Home for Homeless
Doonya is a modular shelter unit that combines a home and a small shop for people without housing. Each unit measures 6 metres by 3 metres, giving 18 square metres, and can be extended up to 40 square metres as a family grows. Built with tubular infrastructure technology, one unit can be assembled by four people in four hours using a single allen key. Each unit carries a unique GPS number, which provides an address and an identity. Further features include an alarm, a terrace, a roof garden, a solar panel and rainwater harvesting.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Doonya Shop and Home for Homeless is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Doonya Shop and Home for Homeless is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Doonya Shop and Home for Homeless is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- A self–contained, modular shelter unit that can support a sizable individual or family and requires little maintenance.
A completely customisable, sustainable full facility that allows a family unit to be built in just four hours, by as few as four people, using just one allen key!
Every unit has a unique GPS number, giving the homeless an address, an identity; an alarm to prevent domestic abuse; a terrace for fresh air and sunlight; a roof garden with solar panel & rain water harvesting. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The size of a typical unit is 6 metres by 3 metres of total 18 sq.m. in size, however the design should be able to extend up to 40 sq.m. if the family grows. It can also include a universal sink and shower, can be quickly disassembled and relocated around the world, making it ideal for deployment to any disaster–stricken area lacking basic facilities and it also helps restore personal space and a sense of dignity for the victims.
- Tags
- modular, home, sustainable, placemaking
- Production Technology
- This is where POD Structures came in with Tubelar®️ technology, a unique construction innovation that allows an entire family unit to be built in just four hours, by as few as four people, using just one allen key! Also, completely customisable, sustainable, modular, full facility and green. It can be mass–produced with a minimum of materials and is easily stockpiled, making it a versatile emergency–shelter unit.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge of this project is the cost price of the modular unit and the positivity of offside construction must be possible at premises to reduce high labour and transport cost to fabricate one unit in Singapore.
- Inspiration
- DOONYA, which means ‘world’ in more than a dozen languages, is a Shop+Home that is both a living and livelihood solution for the very poor.
A Singapore-developed community service project that merges design with engineering and technology. Its sole objective is to provide a solution to the forthcoming urbanisation crisis by offering environment friendly, integrated, transient, fully-serviced and durable maker-pod-homes to those living in urban slums, war zones & densely populated cities. - Project Duration
- ALL YOU NEED IS JUST:
1
ALLEN KEY
That's all it takes to put an entire DOONYA SHOP+HOME together, when power tools are unavailable.
4
PEOPLE
An entire home can be assembled by just 4 people, with no special skills required.
8 HOURS
We can build a home from scratch in the same duration.
Anywhere or impoverished urban areas • informal settlements • disaster relief • war zones • low-cost housing projects • refugee camps • rapid deployment shelters. - Operation Flow
- Built with Tubelar® infrastructure technology,
DOONYA is a smart SHOP+HOME with groundbreaking features with
1) No eviction
An in-situ upgrade; ensures slum dwellers are not displaced
2) Transient Homes
Not permanent, hence no land titles are required
3) Flat-packed
Pre-packaged, therefore no lengthy waits, no quality cuts, no paperwork
4) Expandable
From tiny shelters to family homes, these structures can be increased as the family grows - Team Members
- 1) Rinkoo Bhowmik of the Cha Project
2) Samuel Vedanaigam of Pod Structures,
3) Christina Ho of Royal RSM
4) Rithika Thomas of Ecolabs (Center of Innovation for Energy)
5) Prof Christine Yogiaman of Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
6) Ted Lin of Stonehaven Structures - Image Credits
- Photographer : Mr Samuel Vedanaigam
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