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Honolulu City’s Executive Director of Housing, Jun Yang, has announced plans to make transitional homeless shelters out of five decommissioned city buses.
“The idea is to convert them into living, sleeping, showering, recreational facilities,” said Ma Ry Kim of Group 70 International, the firm that will be working on this project.
“The entire design is based on the premise that you could walk in to a hardware store, buy everything you need in one go and build everything with no trade skills,” she said.
The buses are donated, as are the supplies for the refurbishment. Labor will also come from volunteers.
The buses will have to work as a fleet because each individual bus will have a specific purpose.
“We’re fitting some out to be bathrooms and showers, we’re fitting some out to be sleeping areas, and the design completely folds away like a little Japanese tatami mat.”
While details like where the buses will be deployed and who will operate them are still in the works, the team aims to finish the project within the calendar year.
The world definitely needs more ideas like this.
