TOMORROW’S TRIBES

This project examines long-distance trucking culture, mental health, and speculative architecture in a post-autonomous future shaped by the psychological tolls and myths of truckers. Set within an underground city, drivers equipped with “Egghead” devices remotely pilot fleets across three realms—the Under, the Inner Zone, and the Upper Echelon—sustaining surface life through extraction and exchange. With 3.5 million U.S. truckers underpinning national logistics yet facing chronic isolation and strain, the project reimagines their world as a multi-tiered architectural system that merges infrastructure, automation, and human resilience. Through maps, deconstructed drawings, and animations, it translates psychological and cultural narratives into immersive spatial form