‘Homed’ project could house New York’s homeless in clustered, honeycomb-like pods

Both land and affordable housing are becoming scarcer in New York City, with skyrocketing rents and, subsequently, a steadily increasing population of people who are homeless.

But a new project aims to capitalise on the city’s surplus of “vertical land,” by building clusters of housing units on the side of existing New York buildings to house those currently without a home.

Homed is a new proposal from Framlab, an Oslo and New York City based creative agency, founded by Norwegian designer Andreas Tjeldflaat.

Homed is a densely-packed cluster of 3D printed hexagonal housing modules, to be built on the side of existing New York buildings using a scaffolding framework. The shelters could form “suspended micro-neighborhoods for the city’s least fortunate,” according to Framlab. Read more…

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