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010 Jupe flat pack care unit


Flat pack intensive care unit
Designed by: Jupe
Date: March 2020
Credit: Dezeen 

Jupe provides housing to displaced people. In March, they collaborated with physician Esther Choo and humanitarian designer Cameron Sinclair to develop Jupe Health—a new branch of the company which aimed to help overworked nurses and doctors who have to self-isolate form their families. The flat-pack design which has been described as the 'world's first standalone intensive care unit'. Anticipating the mass infections across the nation, the company announced that it was capable of deploying 500,000 units on a single cargo ship to both rural and urban areas in America.


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