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Galleries // 2025 Spark:Spring Student // The Floating Home
The Floating Home
Finalist
Competition: Spark:Spring Student
Designer: Aiden Kwon
Design Type: Spaces: architecture, interiors, landscape
Company / Organization / School: Yongsan International School
Team Members: Aiden Kwon
Not only in Korea but globally, lonely deaths among elderly people living alone are continuously increasing. We present a new idea to solve this situation. To prevent lonely deaths, we must immediately detect their movements. We utilized water waves as a method to detect movement. This was inspired by water that moves slightly due to people walking on a boat. This single-unit house is designed for elderly residents and provides a unique solution for monitoring their risk situations. The house tilts according to the elderly person's movements, creating ripples on the exterior walls to check their health and mobility. When the elderly person is in the house, if the water doesn't move, it detects a dangerous situation. This house serves as both a safe living space and features real-time health monitoring capabilities.
