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An Australian engineer has developed a house with bedrooms capable of becoming hospital quality rooms for Australians who need them.
The house located in Far North Queensland has enough space to set up oxygen and filters to keep it as sterile as possible.
Talking to The Wire, engineer Julius Arnold-Janco says he feels these rooms should become standard in every household.
We've built a category five residential cyclone shelter with luxury finishes and a private hospital grade medical room to allow for hospital care in house.
When Julius started this project four years ago, the construction industry said his ambitious idea was too costly and impossible to achieve at a residential level.
He took these objections as a challenge.
“I embarked it on myself to see whether it was possible and now four years later, we've built a residential house…we were able to finish it with Italian marble.”
The high-tech home has been fitted with a private AI system that not only monitors security video feeds, alarms and deterrence in real time, but also has a privacy level similar to a government research facility.
Even if you were in the building, you still wouldn't be able to hack it without eight to ten hours of being in the system.
Mr Arnold-Janco says the reason why society needs to implement the project is due to high demand for medical treatment.
“Up here in Cairns with natural disasters, the government's never going to be able to build enough public hospitals to meet the demands of the public.”
“Whenever you have a system that's not able to meet the demands and it doesn't look like it ever will meet the demands, the solution is always decentralisation,” Julius reasons.
He argues that putting more hospital
rooms into residential houses would free up space in hospitals.
People don’t need to take up hospital beds for things like wound care and infectious diseases. These are things that can be treated at home.
The Queensland based engineer says the cost of converting a single room in a residential building is 20 to 30 percent cheaper than staying in hospital.
According to the mastermind behind the project, all that is required to transform a bedroom into a hospital grade space is a medical air system, an oxygen system and a suction system.
“You can convert a medical room to private medical care for anywhere between six to ten grand in total,” Mr Arnold-Janco says.
“That also gives you the ability that if you have a natural disaster or there's no hospital room, it means you can tell your insurer you don't necessarily need all the health cover you previously needed, you'd really only need hospital care.”
Julius explains the layout was designed to fit into anyone's house.
“This should now become a standard. If you've got a house that's 50 years old, it should work for that house. It should work for a modern house. It should work for a tiny home.”