Temporary Pavilion for Healthcare Workers (TPHW) is a modular temporary housing project created by the Mexican architecture & technology office Revolution in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the support of local and global companies as donors and Franco-Mexican Chamber of Commerce & Industry, National Importers and Exporters of Forest Products Association and National Suppliers of the Wood and Furniture Industry Association as allies.

In many cities hundreds of Covid-19 caring healthcare workers are sleeping in their cars or other precarious facilities after finishing their shifts, trying to avoid going home or taking public transportation and exposing their families and communities to contagion.

Lack of safe and comfortable places to sleep and shower inside the hospitals saturated of cases of Covid-19 affects their ability to have a good medical performance at work.

Revolution has designed a module built from prefabricated pieces of wood and biodegradable plastic that houses a bedroom, a shower, a sink, a toilet, a chlorinated water tank and a solar/electric heater in 7 square meters. The modules are affordable, easy to assemble and can be recycled or stored after sanitization for use in later emergencies.

This modular pavilion is ideal for outdoor installation, in empty parking lots of hospitals buildings for example. The design intends to offer natural light, privacy and a safe, dour and meditative interior space in response to the physical end emotional needs of exhausted healthcare workers fighting against Covid-19 pandemic.

Revolution has a special interest in emergency architecture and affordable micro-housing in emerging countries. Among their main projects are The People's Tower (a critical exercise for the develop of affordable housing in the heart of Mexico City’s financial district) and the master plan for the construction of temporary housing for those affected by the September 2017 8.1 earthquake in Ocuilan, Mexico.

The first pavilion has been donated to the Red Cross’s Central Hospital in Mexico City. The emergency facilities will begin housing medical and sanitary personnel on Friday May 15th.

Revolution has released the intellectual property of the architectural design of this modular project, with is freely available to all hospitals, institutions or individuals worldwide to contribute to those who fight against the Covid-19 pandemic with bravery.