Exemplar Strategy - Mobile

Nat Chard, Variable Picture Plane drawing instrument 02, 2006

Cast aluminium, glass, acrylic and MDF

CJ Lim / Studio 8, World of Cow

CJ Lim / Studio 8, The Hanging Gardens of Wanton Harmony

This post looks at how a mobile architectural strategy could benefit Australia, and in particular Australian parliament. Being an expansive country with reasonably condensed population clusters, the nature of parliament can be described as remote.

Most pollies travel to the ACT when parliament is in session and remain in Canberra for the duration, possibly returning home for weekends. Parliament House is their home (virtually) for weeks, months on end. As our technology and lifestyle become more flexible, more convenient, more accessible should we look more toward mobile building typologies? No longer does an office need to be in an air conditioned building with artificial lighting. The technological superhighways of tomorrow are only just beginning to open up and with the implementation of cloud computing and connectivity, people of all walks will seek mobility and freedom for work and leisure.

BOB is a hybrid home of the future, a mobile living tool for tomorrows generation of nomadic wanderers. Somewhere between a tent, a house and a Winnebago, BOB explores the relationship between the basic human requirements of travel and shelter.
The simple premise for BOB is that a vans engine, gearbox and drivetrain are all located under the front seats, leaving the rest of the van for living in. Given all of BOB's technology and critical components are efficiently contained in the front quater, we have made the walls and roof dynamic by allowing them to fold down and triple the effective floorspace.

http://www.andrewmaynard.com.au/BOB01.html