TrailerWrap
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TrailerWrap explores the potential for providing affordable housing through the adaptive reuse and recycling of existing mobile homes. Addressing issues of sustainability and energy efficiency, the TrailerWrap project seeks to create exciting, small-scale, and affordable architecture with a social and environmental conscience. It also engages young people in an experiential learning experience that helps address the local need for low-cost housing in collaboration with community partners.
Often overlooked or looked down upon, the ubiquitous mobile home constitutes an important, but under appreciated housing typology that serves a wide range of citizens. TrailerWrap’s objective is to provide simple and affordable solutions to improve the condition of the mobile home. Since the mid 1900s, mobile homes have been mass produced worldwide in an attempt to provide a solution to low cost housing. In doing so, several important factors that make a house a home have been overlooked. Among these, lack of comfort, inefficiency, and poor aesthetics are the major flaws in mobile home design. The inefficiency of these homes often causes discomfort; leaving them too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer.
