New Assemblies

Vision for Health

New Assemblies serves as the stage from which to present a near-future vision of human-machine cohabitation, what the system provides, and how it functions.

The narrative follows Mei, a grandmother in a senior care facility, and her humanoid caregiver.

Watch the animation and follow their interactions through a full day.

A home is no longer physical space; it is a network. The architect has long designed space and object as a collection. While that remains, architecture must engage the unseen networks and the experiences they provide within the spaces holding them.

This project follows one relationship, one household. Every room is an assembly of embodied intelligence: the door that recognizes her face, the chandelier that senses the table, the bed that reads her vitals. The caregiver is not a machine in the house, but a networked being within it, its self held in servers, sovereign, belonging to the family it serves. For the future of senior health, care is no longer a service delivered to the home; it is a capacity of the home.

This returns not efficiency but attention: freed from being managed, she teaches, plays, reads, and is received.

It arrived as a machine and left us with memory.