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CURA
Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments

Company: Carlo Ratti Associati
Role: Engineer / CAD Designer / Fabricator

CURA was an open-source project designed and executed in under a month in response to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. The goal was to create bio-containing ICU units made from shipping containers to be easily deployed in different areas around the world. The containers contained 2 ICE beds, each with their respective medical equipment (respirators, IV, ECG monitors..), as well as medical gas supply for O2, air and vacuum. An HVAC system was installed which created negative pressure inside of the container, keeping the virus isolated from the external environment, while air expelled from the containers was treated with an absolute filter. The first container was deployed at a pop-up hospital in Turin, Italy.

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