trekker's house

A group of trekkers has a predetermined location to stay the night to prepare themselves for another arduous journey through the beautiful volcanic deserts and tundra oases scattered throughout the highlands of iceland. Typically, trekker’s have the opportunity to send drift boxes through the mail to a city along the way that contains further supplies or any additional equipment. This proposal intends to incorporate that idea as well as integrate comprehensive diagnostics system that the “house” can optimally prepare and store to educate the trekker at a stop along the journey. The proposal provides a unique modular system that is flexible and adaptable. The intent was to engage an interesting excerpt from mark wigley’s recycling recycling.  

“The argument starts with crude mechanical hands and ends with the subtle control of machines through body electricity. To accessorize and extend the body is not to simply attach a prosthetic limb or place the body within some prosthetic apparatus. It also means passing that apparatus right into the internal nervous system, letting the machinery of the body interact with the machinery that is outside it to produce a new kind of body. The limit between interior and exterior, organic and technological, gives way.“

Allowing the “house” to become an extension of the trekker’s typical routine provides a habitable environment that provides information and care, to expedite the reenergizing process of the body for the next leg of the journey. The trekker will wear a diagnostic device on their skin that is wireless transmitted both to a handheld device and to the plug-in unit. The unit receives the data, compiles it, and then provides onscreen recommendations inside the unit itself. Once the trekker reaches the plug-in unit, the unit takes over and starts to accommodate the trekker in any health related task. The idea is to allow the trekker to be “hands off” and accept and receive this care from their unit. The plug-in unit serves as an extension of the trekker’s brain and immune system providing detailed information and care to a weary trekker.