commissioned concept design / deployable infrastructure / systems

BuildingBloc

Commissioned concept work for deployable medical manufacturing, remote production, and modular campuses.

Vertex and KIMSSEA campus concept with modular buildings organised around a shaded public courtyard and landscape. — Vertex / KIMSSEA campus concept: modular systems organised as a lived campus environment.

BuildingBloc engaged the studio to translate technical programmes into environments that could be evaluated by operators, investors, and partners. The work spans containerised medical microfactories, controlled workflows, and campus-scale deployments.

Across iterations, the design problem remained consistent: coordinate equipment, people, servicing, transport, and expansion within a compact system.

The concepts supported investor communication and innovation submissions, including a Canadian Space Agency submission and Canadian defence-related proposal work. They are presented as commissioned early-stage design, not as built work or engineering documentation.

Programme

A common spatial logic across multiple deployments.

At each scale, the system had to support controlled workflow, rapid deployment, servicing, and safe human use around dense technical infrastructure.

Emergency manufacturing

Modular production and clean-room environments designed for rapid deployment and constrained conditions.

Healthcare microfactories

Clinical and manufacturing workflows translated into legible interior zones, equipment relationships, and staff movement.

Remote deployment

Field and extreme-environment concepts exploring transport, setup, protection, servicing, and compact habitation.

Campus integration

Vertex and KIMSSEA studies organising modular units through landscape, circulation, gathering, and public realm.

Modular manufacturing plant

A medical-device microfactory within a 40-foot container.

A 40 by 8 foot container is organised as a working plant: raw-material storage at one end, 3D printers below a continuous work surface, standing workstations through the centre, and finished-device storage at the opposite end. Roll-up doors support loading, setup, and linear workflow. The concept was commissioned by BuildingBloc for a Canadian Space Agency proposal and sized for locations where conventional production space is unavailable.

A 40 by 8 foot red modular manufacturing plant on a snowfield under a clear sky. — 40 x 8 x 8 modular manufacturing plant, exterior view.

The red modular manufacturing plant at night under green and purple northern lights. — Remote northern deployment. Northern lights image credit: Canadian Space Agency.

Cutaway top view of the plant labelling raw material storage, 3D printers under the work surface, moveable standing workstations, and 3D printed medical device storage. — Cutaway: material and finished-device storage at the ends, printers and standing workstations along the middle.

Floor plan of the 40 by 8 foot plant at 1 to 60 scale, with roll-up doors at both ends, storage, stand-up desks, and 3D printers. — Floor plan at 1:60, with a roll-up door at each end.

KIMSSEA

From technical modules to an institutional campus.

For the KIMSSEA studies, the studio organised modular units around shaded gathering spaces, clear circulation, landscape, and public thresholds.

The units could not function as a campus by adjacency alone. Arrival, shade, sightlines, movement, and separation between public and controlled zones became part of the infrastructure.

Landscape and shared space became the connective system that allowed a collection of modules to operate as a coherent place.

VERTEX deployable units set up as an emergency response camp with ambulances, a Canadian Red Cross vehicle, solar panels, and wildfire smoke behind. — VERTEX units in an emergency deployment: solar power, on-site services, wildfire response.

KIMSSEA container campus at dusk with lit interiors, a curved illuminated bench, planting, and people gathering. — KIMSSEA campus at dusk: the courtyard as the connective public space.

BuildingBloc deployable medical module interior with clinical work areas and controlled glazing. — Deployable medical module interior.

BuildingBloc modular clean-room interior with medical workstation and equipment. — Clinical workflow and controlled work zone.

BuildingBloc modular medical manufacturing interior with equipment and clean-room logic. — Medical microfactory concept.

BuildingBloc Alpha deployable module transported by truck. — Alpha system: transport and deployment study.

BuildingBloc microfactory interior with digital fabrication equipment and modular workstations. — Compact manufacturing environment.

Vertex field-campus concept with modular units, service vehicles, solar infrastructure, and landscape. — Vertex field-campus deployment study.

KIMSSEA modular campus concept with container buildings, landscape, and gathering spaces. — KIMSSEA campus integration study.

Deployable BuildingBloc unit under the northern lights in a remote environment. — Remote northern deployment study developed for BuildingBloc’s Canadian Space Agency proposal.