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Vodafone Extreme Mobile Solar Home
So I am completely enamored by Vodafone’s Extreme Mobile Solar Home design.
I don’t think it’s any secret that I’m fascinated by just about any type of tiny home on wheels. However, there are several things I love about this particular design. First, I appreciate the modern design aesthetic. Many of the tiny mobile homes follow Jay Shafer’s design lead and have very rustic, cabin-feeling interiors. While those have a great appeal for me, as well, it’s refreshing to encounter a different style of design which creatively employs the use of glass, light wood floors, and loft-style elements. The Vodafone could easily appear in the next issue of Dwell Magazine without being out of place.
Secondly, the Vodafone design uses its 19’7″ x 8’2″ dimensions extremely well in terms of spatial design. There is a spacious (by tiny home standards) sleeping loft upstairs, a well-equipped kitchen, and clever use of convertible furniture and storage space (such as the cupboards below the stairway). And, naturally, the solar panels incorporated in the design are another fantastic element.
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The home is built with white polyethylene panels and clear polycarbonate. The modern interior has a kitchen, bathroom, living room, and two beds upstairs. It was designed by Waskman Design Studio, with CuldeSac, for Vodafone to showcase its fixed phone and wireless internet services.
The home is currently occupied by blogger Marcos Morales and his family as they travel through Spain. You can follow their journey here.
Below is a video of the home being built.
Photo credits: Waskman Design Studio
So I am completely enamored by Vodafone’s Extreme Mobile Solar Home design.
I don’t think it’s any secret that I’m fascinated by just about any type of tiny home on wheels. However, there are several things I love about this particular design. First, I appreciate the modern design aesthetic. Many of the tiny mobile homes follow Jay Shafer’s design lead and have very rustic, cabin-feeling interiors. While those have a great appeal for me, as well, it’s refreshing to encounter a different style of design which creatively employs the use of glass, light wood floors, and loft-style elements. The Vodafone could easily appear in the next issue of Dwell Magazine without being out of place.
Secondly, the Vodafone design uses its 19’7″ x 8’2″ dimensions extremely well in terms of spatial design. There is a spacious (by tiny home standards) sleeping loft upstairs, a well-equipped kitchen, and clever use of convertible furniture and storage space (such as the cupboards below the stairway). And, naturally, the solar panels incorporated in the design are another fantastic element.
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The home is built with white polyethylene panels and clear polycarbonate. The modern interior has a kitchen, bathroom, living room, and two beds upstairs. It was designed by Waskman Design Studio, with CuldeSac, for Vodafone to showcase its fixed phone and wireless internet services.
The home is currently occupied by blogger Marcos Morales and his family as they travel through Spain. You can follow their journey here.
Below is a video of the home being built.
Photo credits: Waskman Design Studio
I do like that one quite a bit too. Certainly has a heck of a good amount of outdoor lighting, anyway! On private land somewhere, that would be awesome, though I’d put in some opening panels in that plexiwall.
If I owned this one there’d be wall-to-wall curtains hung along the plexi wall. Otherwise I think there’d be times I felt like I was inside an aquarium. I like that the sleeping loft is relatively private, though.
Yes, all respect and love to Jay and others, but I favor Ando, Ito & Atelier Bow Wow or Tezuka / House To Catch Sunlight – that would give you an idea – and to wish for that feeling in a small home! I’d say they’ve got the lead here. I dream of stripping out an RV or to acquire the Tortoise -Shell of Galapagos- and having the interior be little more than pure white with a Saarinen Womb chair w/ottoman, books and an espresso maker, loft above.
Sadly, where I live, I would have to have a metal gate to draw across that wall to sleep or run errands – thus my love for clerestory windows and the incredible talent for privacy you see in some of the the architecture of such crowded cities as in Japan: then they break wide open in the country. Ok, I ramble.
This wacky world. Thanks so much for this post.