The city should be unexpected where the moments of social exchange can happen constantly.
I’m proposing the ‘Care Archipelago’ as a nomadic city weaving with the sedentary one to maximize the activated moments for the slow urban travelers.
The traveling nodes give care to the elderly population and give back to the city a market space.
Bobusang: Korean traditional walking merchant The nomadic movement I am looking at has taken inspiration from an earlier case study, Bobusang.
Travelling Pattern of Bobusangs & 5-Day Interval Markets
Travelling Loop of Bobusang on the Circulating Market System
Bobusang in Today's Urban Context: Street Merchant The unexpected intrusion moments are activated by street merchants with the sound they are making, while travelling.
The temporary periodic market happening in life when the two buildings meet and exchange space and people.
The node has two cores on the base structure, sitting on the rail. And two different type of floors are stacked alternately.
The urban garden incubated in the elderly home and planted along their trajectory across the city. It becomes productive garden platform merging to the sedentariness, and waits until the marknode come
Looking closely when the market meets the elderly home and intrudes, it is all about aliveness. The active sounds bring the care home residence travel down to the market.
The multiple nodes of elderly home and market trace each other’s trajectory in tension and diversion Create an constantly roaming archipelago
