Project Name: Trailer Wrap

>A simple and affordable solution to improve the condition of mobile homes--addressing lack of comfort, inefficiency, and poor aesthetics.<<

Project Type:
6) architecture

Project Mission/Goal:
1) improve the human spirit
3) respond to our growing need for clean water, power, shelter, healthcare, education
4) address humanitarian crises

Project Description:
While it is not statistically likely that you — a loyal JoshSpear.com reader — live in a trailer, these abodes serve an important role in our society. With ever-increasing wage and wealth disparities in our economy, many American families look to the mass-produced mobile home as an affordable and convenient place to live. Unfortunately, a trailer park stigma exists due to the consensus that these things are horrendous looking and could be blown over in a second by the ‘big bad wolf.’

Thanks to Trailer Wrap — a project initiated by the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Architecture and Planning — the trailer park stigma may begin to subside. The idea behind Trailer Wrap is to provide simple and affordable solutions to improve the condition of mobile home–addressing lack of comfort, inefficiency, and poor aesthetics. Trailer Wrap comes in the form of a simple, affordable kit that can be assembled easily by just a few people. Thanks to hard work by students, dedicated faculty, and help from a wealth of sponsors, Trailer Wrap continues to build steam to become a widely implemented concept. Thanks to Boulder-based architect and buddy Brian Nelson for a heads up on this one.

Text from: http://joshspear.com/item/trailerwrap/

This is the first of what will be a series of house projects called "prefabricated landscapes" in Little Rock with a nonprofit community partner, XXX. The team is slated to complete a project each year in this one neighborhood that explores variations on conventional domestic housing types that incorporate outdoor living spaces. Similar to some of the ideas in Trailer Wrap.

Text from: Michael Hughes, Designer

Links:
http://joshspear.com/item/trailerwrap/
http://catovichughes.com/
http://www.trailerwrap.net./
www.arkdb.blogspot.com
Michael Hughes bio: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://latechaias.files.wordpress.co...

Project Details:
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Concept/Lead Architect(s)/Designer(s):
Project Architect(s):
Year (s): Jan 2004 to Sept. 2006
Client: Thistle Community Housing
User Client: Mapleton Mobile Home Owners Association
Number of beneficiaries/users:
Project Phase: Completed
Major Funding: Thistle Community Housing, The Dean of the Univ. of Colorado College of Architecture + Planning, Univ. of Colorado Service Learning Grant, Univ. of Colorado Diversity & Excellence Grant, University of Colorado Service-Learning Grant, NeighborWorks
Cost/Cost per unit: US$ 46,000
Area (if applicable): 564 sq. ft
Structural Engineers: David Transue, P.E.
Electrical/Mechanical Engineers: N/A
Contractor/Manufacturer:
Additional Consultants: N/A
Other:

Nominated by Brian Hearn