Here, fiction serves as a lens through which to examine the urgent realities of the present. As climate and geopolitical crises increasingly undermine permanent forms of habitation, forced displacement has become a defining contemporary reality.
This speculative project explores the “zero degree” of architecture in the face of an increasingly hostile world: nomadic survival equipment. Through the design of a mobile system combining a textile exoskeleton and a towed shelter, the project reconsiders our dependence on complex infrastructures.
By combining reclaimed materials with low-tech assembly methods, it suggests that resilience can emerge through frugality, repairability, and a close relationship between the moving body and its environment.