Post by Elif Aybuke Turgut

Life perseveres, we adapt; but where there is breath, there we flourish. In line with what NJ Governor Murphy stated in June 2020, “I come to believe that breathing and the access to clean air is a fundamental issue. Breathing is an architectural and spatial problem” we propose a social housing model based on healthy breathing in all possible earthly settings. While humankind revisits the essentials of living based on biological threats presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and heightened social discourses, PRANA (i.e. Life-force) home design speculates on how a healthy and authentic social lifestyle is possible within the full potentials and limits of air, water, and soil. PRANA, inspired from the naturally shaped “fairy chimneys” and underground city life in Cappadocia, Turkey, is based on a terra-cotta 3D printed construction. A rainwater storage system, combined with vertical permaculture within the PRANA capsules, provides the infrastructure for oxygen, food, and community needed. Zeppelin-shaped drones which can move in every medium, cover the basic needs of a family in motion. This project was designed for Home Competition 2020. Teamwork, Cigdem Eksi / Elif A. Turgut / Selda Serifsoy Cakar. #conceptualdesign