Present day concerns for single objects will be replaced by concern for relationships. Shelters will no longer be static objects but dynamic objects sheltering and enhancing human events. Accommodation will be responsive, ever-changing and ever-adjusting. Cities of future be no longer zoned as today in isolated ghettos of like activities; rather organizationally they will resemble the more richly layered cites of the past, living work shopping learning and leisure will be housed in continuous varied and changing structures. -Richard Rogers,1991

Over 4000 years ago, Noah was called by god to build an ark capable of transporting the natural world and its creatures to safety when the apocalype struck. Thsi may have been the first example of portable and relocatable architecture whose purpose was self-sufficient housing.- Jennifer Siegal

I started with exploding the rickshaw in its individual parts to study them better and exploring the options with using only the existing parts of it and transforming it to a minimal shelter. The study helped me understand the spaces it can create and the dimensions which can be achieved and the need of additional parts and changes required in existing pieces in terms of their sizes and designs.

I studied the life of a rickshaw puller in a day to understand their needs well. He wakes up at 4am, takes a bath on the road, goes to a shack to have a cup of tea, picks up school kids at 7 to drop them to school(this gives him a fixed monthly salary), eats his lunch on the rickshaw, drops kids to their homes from school and finally sleeps on his rickshaw at night,11pm and next day he has to go back to his routine with the pain in his back.

The idea is to make it a transformable vehicle to in-habitat poor homeless rickshaw-puller and give him a better place to sleep and keep his stuff.

Mobile architecture is more than just an ephemeral solution for a problem. It is a genre of building that has been there, the prototypical human shelter that first established the human need and desire to make home.

"The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective." - Arnold Toynbee, English historian(1889-1975). The word "practical objective" here shifts the utopian ambition of human welfare,which by definition is not reachable, to a design project, a practical objective.

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 “For the 200 million homeless people around the world of which 50,000 die every day, if our governments cannot build homes, can we provide them with shelters to sleep as an immediate response?

Can we provide them with the basics for every night- roof, food and sanitation facilities? I want to make multi-functional cocoons for the urban poor which can be transmuted as per needs.

This metamorphosis of shelters will also restrict these places becoming slums one day like most others. The transitions will have different functions which will ultimately decide its form and movements through out the cycle of a day.
The art and power of modern engineering with architecture can be used to come up with interesting ideas for this.”