D.O.D. Doctor on demand

During the last years we’ve seen a fast expansion of the cities and we noticed how, year after year, always more people moved to this urban areas. By some estimates in the 2050 the 2/3 of the population will live in big cities. This brought to the saturation of the available areas where to build structures and anything could be necessary to give a service to the always increasing number of people living the cities. From here the necessity to create new alternative spaces that can help people to simplify their lives and guarantee a good service to the population in every kind of situation. Analyzing di erent societies of the world, we can notice that some populations, nowadays mainly located in Asia are already facing this problem of overpopulation in some big cities and in the next years the problem will increase even more. To contrast this problem in Japan and some other areas, for example, in the past years was born the concept of capsule hotels where people can spend the night in a small space with only the necessary things for them; a single person for every capsule, in this way there is more space for everyone who needs a place to sleep and this is necessary in those areas where the amount of people is so elevated that with a normal bedroom for every single person there wouldn’t be enough space for everyone. The work of this thesis is based on this situation, starting analyzing the problem and the evolution of the society. This thesis is divided in three fundamental parts: a research part, a description of the context where the projet is based, and the last part about the project itself. The research starts with an analysis of the scenario, so the analysis of the world of the future with a moving society, overcrowded cities, and the opportunities given by new technologies. The second part tells about the starting point of the project so the concept of space in di erent cultures and the perception of space for the human being. In the third and nal part there is expained ...