Home Phone is an exploration of shelter and the concept of home, particularly as it relates to homelessness. Telephone booths, once a common sight around our cities, are being removed from service as cell phones become commonplace. For many homeless without the benefit of a cell phone, the public phone booth
is an important amenity to connect beyond local neighborhoods. We see the loss of the phone booth as a loss of public infrastructure in our cities. Our design reshapes that public facility by creating a stylish, small home – a home phone.

Home Phone

Completion: 2009
Dimensions: 3’ x 3’ x 9’
Medium: Decommissioned phone booth, OSB (oriented strand board), pine plywood, solid pine
Designer: Nathan Lee, Trevor Coghill
Exhibitions: eme3 architecture Festival, Barcelona Spain (2011) | Home Phone, Museum of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada (2009) | Off the Hook, IDW West, Vancouver, Canada (2009)

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