Trailer Wrap
A one time University of Colorado architecture professor takes his students on a journey from tailer trash to trailer modern. A single wide trailer destined for the landfill becomes an exercise in adaptive reuse.
April 2008 issue of Metropolitan Home:
When it comes to small spaces, nothing conjures up images of design-impaired living like the words “mobile home.” Add to that a reputation for flimsy construction, and the bad rap seems well deserved.
Yet when architecture professor Michael Hughes talks about trailers and the traditional urban trailer park, he sees another picture: affordable, small-scale homes in a high-density neighborhood. “Mobile homes came into being as a low-cost housing solution, serving that niche in between an apartment or condo and a standard suburban home,” says Hughes. “Their typical design, however, has been fundamentally flawed, with structural and spatial issues.”
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You can also visit the “Trailer Wrap” web site. The site does a good job documenting the entire process.
It is beautiful but was anything but the steel chassis kept from the old trailer?
I was expecting that most of it wuold be reused or was that not the idea?
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You are correct, everything except for the chassis was thrown out the window.
I think this project mainly focused on trying to rethink what a trailer could be by using the existing modular proportions of the mobile home, in this case an existing chassis.
It seemed that the structure and material of the trailer was in pretty bad shape when they started the project…
This is such a good project! Proof that good design can make anything better