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THE ISSUE: Homelessness By The Numbers

17,595 homeless in San Francisco

58,936 homeless in LOS ANGELES COUNTRY

Homelessness in America is at a crisis point. In Los Angeles and San Francisco, encampments can now be found in almost every neighborhood.

There are less than 8,000 new units being built in Los Angeles per year. The average cost of each unit hovers around $550,000. Very few of these new homes offer transitional housing.

The Sleep Pod^®

Sleep Pods provide an inexpensive, portable and beautiful option to homeless shelters.

Coupled with a pilot social program inspired by the successful Veteran’s Community Project in Kansas founded by former US Army Corporal Chris Stout, The Sleep Pod underscores the first crucial transitional step to propel people out of homelessness and on the road towards long-term housing.

With a streamlined functional design that offers a place to sleep, prepare simple food and socialize, The Sleep Pod provide a foundation upon which to accrue the basic skills necessary to maintain a long-term home.

Beautiful

Sculptural, streamlined and easy-to-clean Sleep Pods are a encampments.

Temporary

Studies have shown that it only takes 6-9 months in a well-supported environment to transition out of homelessness.

Dignified living

Outfitted with new basics that nurture pride of ownership, Sleep Pods help reignite dignity.

Vocational skills

Sleep Pod assembly teaches basic construction skills and develops teamwork.

Job creation

Maintenance and supportive services of Sleep Pods — including refuse, water, repair and security — creates jobs.

Basic skills

The Sleep Pod teaches the home keeping responsibilities necessary to maintain long-term housing.

Micro-communities

Parking lots, construction sites and undeveloped lands can be quickly and temporarily transformed into small, supportive villages buoyed by communal dining, bathing and restroom facilities.

Flexible

RV certification offers special dispensations with regard to insurance, location and safety codes.

Recyclable

Created from natural materials, the units are also partially recyclable.

COMPONENTS

A lightweight, portable, scalable and inexpensive solution to temporary housing. All the amenities of tiny house dwelling with the portability of a tent.

Perched on adjustable legs created for uneven surfaces, with a structural base modeled on a stringer pallet and made from injection molded recycled plastic and an inflatable geodesic roof with a self-regulating fan mechanism, The Sleep Pod is a comfortable, non-invasive ADA-compliant shelter that can be put together by a two man team with only minimal instruction. Interchangeable parts and snap-together assembly make them easy to erect and break down.

Sleep Pod Catalog

LIFE SPAN

4-10 years with a minimum of 4 inflations and deflations per year

INITIAL INVESTMENT

Tooling, initial mold casting and creation TBD

COST PER UNIT

Cost varies due to final composition

Recreation

Portability, a slender footprint, and tranquil, dustless construction, make the Sleep Pod ideal for erecting in remote locations, offering unparalleled access to the earth’s most hidden and exotic locales. Comfortable, non-invasive, sustainable, the Sleep Pod offers a living experience that easily surpasses that of the most glamorous tents. And, once it’s removed, all traces of it disappear, leaving nature undisturbed.

Urban Renewal

The Sleep Pod’s modern design fits deftly into the many variations of the urban environment, nestling near modern office buildings as well as it does near traditional homes. The clean, crisp, space-age lines of the Sleep Pod are a visually pleasing alternative to the flimsy, rough and chaotic look of most temporary housing structures.

Living Farm and Hothouses

Hothouse production is a growing business with an estimated one million acres of greenhouses spread across the world. The interior of the Sleep Pod can be customized to accommodate protected cultivations, allowing for control over the environment, sheltering crops from adverse weather conditions and safeguard management over pests and diseases, allowing for abundant year-round farming.

Promotions & Exhibitions

From art fairs to kitchen shows, trade gatherings to photography exhibits, carnivals, flea markets, and music festivals, the need for temporary spaces that offer no hassle set up and breakdown and an easy-care backdrop that displays a variety of wares and services from the exquisite to the ordinary in a setting that promotes their best attributes is an ongoing need in our increasing connected, international economic climate.

Construction and Production Sites

Building sites and movie sets have unique demands that include safety, flexibility, portability, comfort, longevity, security and privacy. The Sleep Pod accommodates all of these needs in one compact design, serving both as offices or sleeping quarters.

Catastrophe and Disaster Relief

With their plug-and-play assembly, unparalleled portability and small-scale fabrication needs, they can quickly adapt to a variety of unforeseen and changeable situations in remote and inhospitable conditions.

Medical

Whether used as patient care rooms, vaccine cultivation labs, hospital offices, isolation units or urgent care spaces, the Sleep Pod can accommodate a wide variety of medical needs.Hermetically-sealed, air controlled, easy care and ADA-compliant, they can be connected together to create a distinct, standalone, temporary wing that amplifies a hospital’s existing facilities.

Future and Private Use

From school rooms to work from home spaces, from poolside changing areas to guest quarters, the Sleep Pod morphs to meet the needs of an evolving world and its shifting needs. Created from recycled and recyclable injection molded plastic, The Sleep Pod offers the luxury of running water and electrical outlets in a snap-together, inflatable easy-to-assemble design that fits into a shipping container.

DISCOVER THE SLEEP POD^® APP

More extraordinary than reality

The Sleep Pod app is the perfect tool to fully understand the potential in multiple scenarios. Useful in the design and development of your projects, it allows you to fully experience the Pod thanks to its outstanding realism and richness of details.

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Who we are

Sleep pod was designed by Lars Oliver Hypko and developed together with his team in Los Angeles @ Mass Beverly.

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