5 MPH Home: Ultra-Tiny Caravan Towed by Mobility Scooter. Quite possibly the quirkiest thing to come out of the big royal wedding was a one-off wonder of portable living, part serious, part joke, but one hundred percent British on both fronts.
Its creators at ETA.UK boast it is so small that if you need supplies you can just tow it with you into the supermarket. Small Mobile Homes: Bike Trailers & Shopping Cart Campers. Capsule Campers: Mini Mobile Pod Trailers for Urban Travel. A typical Winnebago gets parked out the outskirts of a town or, at best, in a large parking lot that can accommodate its bulk.
While larger such caravans are great for wide-open road trips, this set of small capsules is designed for maneuverability in a modern city setting. Designer David Tonkinson pursued a number of creative design variants, but ultimately engineered these modules to include linear actuators that, in turn, allow for an open configuration when the pods are set up and opened in a static location. A wrap-around side-and-skylight system – stretched between and wrapping around the seam separating the two halves of each shell – can be turned opaque for privacy purposes at the flick of a switch. Part of it slides sideways, acting as a door when the sides are extended. At the same time, splitting the design into two pods helps keep down the size of each overall egg-shaped trailer unit, which are individually small enough to park in a normal-sized car space. Solar Pod: The Off-Grid, Eco-Energy, Portable Power House. Mobile Transformer: Futuristic Tent + Truck + Trailer Home. This is far from the first cool architectural concept to seek a new form of nomadic living, but it is an impressively daring, comprehensive and versatile one.
The idea borrows strategically from familiar typologies and recent histories, but blends these influences into something uniquely forward-thinking. Unlike many portable housing plans, for instance, the distinction between driving and living space is fundamentally blurred in this work by Maynard Architects. Tiny Camper-Trailer Converts into Huge Mobile Motorhome. Space Trailer: NASA Architect Now Makes Mini Mobile Homes. So you live in a small condo where every square foot counts – but imagine the premium on space of actual outer space habitats.
Combining his childhood love of houseboats and adult work on habitat modules for NASA and the International Space Station, one architect has applied all of his learning and yearning to a unique space-saving (and space-age) trailer right here on Earth. After years figuring out how to make comfortable and compact living quarters in which astronauts were to eat, sleep, bathe and relax – their tiny floating home away from home – the eventual creator of the Cricket Trailer refocused his efforts on something more useful to everyday earthlings: a made-to-order, modular, miniature trailer home. One size does not fit all – people can purchase a simple shell with wheel well storage compartments and a sloped floor for drainage, then build out the rest on their own if they wish. Modified Bike Trailer Doubles as DIY Mobile Camper Home. The ultimate in eco-friendly mobile living, this ingenious residential bike trailer idea from Tiny House Design is perhaps not as far fetched as it might first appear.
After all, small or big, portable homes have similar security issues and bikes can pull quite a bit of weight and existing bike trailers can haul up to hundreds of pounds. The designer has suggested it could be built from a heavy-duty trailer base around eight feet long and three feet wide with curved walls made of plywood and, foam board for exterior insulation, wood doors and windows and thin aluminum for cladding. There is no doubt that the quarters would be extremely cramped but would it be that much worse than camping in the woods? A standard-height individual could sleep fully horizontal with their legs tucked under a kitchen, storage and shelving area in the rear of the mini-camper.
Tiny Truck + Mini Trailer = Super Small Mobile Camper Car! Based on an already-popular compact three-wheeled vehicle (the Piaggio), this may be the world’s tiniest portable home – a kind of car, camper, trailer and tent hybrid all packed into an ultra-small frame.
Best of all, it takes the elements it needs and innovates where required – all to avoid reinventing the wheel, so to speak. Crammed into the tiny space of the Bufalino are an amazing array of things you would expect to find only in a super-sized mobile home, including full cooking gear, wash basin, ample storage, sleeping space, lounge chair and more. In front there is room for the driver, bicycle-like handlebar wheel and a small flip-down desk that can fit a little laptop computer – cozy, compact, but still spacious enough to serve its purposes. The driver’s seat then folds down to become the lower half of a bed that makes full use of the limited space inside and extends virtually from front to back. Interior drawers are secured via flexible bands, as is common in work vehicles. Bus Home or Mobile Converted Double-Decker Community? There was a time when designers were also philosophers, artists and visionaries beyond just being professional architects.
Aristide Antonas is a Greek professor of architecture whose imagination pushes the envelope on adaptive reuse, recycled materials and portable dwelling beyond merely mobile homes. This two-story used bus is imagined as a potential hotel or a portable commuting community space for professionals on-the-go. It features seven beds, a living room area and a restroom and would fit int typical mobile home parks, though finding dealers with parts for sale might be a bit trickier.
It is an intentionally non-radical work of construction, requiring no contractor or elaborate plans to be built – just a group of people who wish to turn an ordinary vehicle into a multi-person housing unit on wheels. The value is in the labor, not the design – and forget about estates or land prices. “Typical banal elements show us already how to interact with them. Driverless Self-Parking (Post)Modern Mobile Home Design. From pocket gadgets to portable houses, modularity and mobility are the hottest buzzwords of the industrial design world, so any sleek new conceptual (post)modern mobile home design that combines these is bound to raise heads – and, in this case, with very good reason.
