Modular sleeping bags made from easy-to-install wood panels provide temporary accommodation for homeless people in London.
Ten of the prefabricated pods designed by London architectural firm Reed Watts were installed in the night camp of the 999 Club in Deptford.
They provide secure, temporary accommodation for people who might otherwise sleep on the street.
Reed Watts also makes the design available online through a Creative Commons license so that anyone with the facilities can reproduce additional pods and make them available to the needy.
The architect and co-founder of Reed Watts, Matt Watts, hopes that other companies in the capital will offer vacant space.
"By releasing the design as a royalty-free Creative Commons license, we want to give as many organizations as possible the ability to use the pods where protection is needed in the short-term," he said. The project was run by a The 2017 competition organized by the charity Commonweal Housing called for ideas for Romanian migrant workers who were forced to build camps in public parks or underpasses.
These migrants are among the estimated 170,000 homeless people in the British capital - that's 1 in 52 people.
Reed Watts won the competition with his design for "low-tech pods" that can be easily installed in rooms such as school halls or abandoned buildings.
Previously, prototype pods had been installed at the 999 Club and Housing Justice at Hillingdon for the architects to test the concept. A customized version of this design is the one that will now be rolled out.
Each shell consists of 18 millimeter thick interlocking panels of fireproof birch plywood that can be manually assembled. Together they form a roughly cube-shaped structure that is 2.1 meters high, 2.1 meters long and 1.9 meters wide.
All are equipped with a mattress raised on a platform that serves as a bed, seat and secure storage area. A curtain gives users the option of privacy.
The 10 deployed in the 999 Club were built for any price by local manufacturer Aldworth James & Bond with materials donated by Specialized Panel Products.
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