Sustainable Portables by the Office of Mobile Design
by on 01.26.05
If you’re into green prefab, browsing through OMD’s website is like being a kid in a candy store. Architect Jennifer Siegal has so many nifty projects—prototyped, planned, or built—that we want to tell you all about all of them all at once. But gorging ourselves at the aforementioned candy store taught us a lesson, so we’ll stick to just one (for now). And while we’re on the topic of childhood, we’ll make it Siegal’s Sustainable Portable classrooms.
The educational cousin of the trailer home, cheap and (theoretically) temporary portable classrooms have sprung up in droves round overcrowded schools. They’re usually pretty dingy, with tiny windows and ’70s-style faux wood paneling that adds nothing to the learning environment. Add inspired design, bamboo and cork floors, non-VOC paint, and other green goodies, and you’ve actually got a place to learn comfortably, healthily, and stylishly. At $200-$250 USD per square foot, a Sustainable Portable is roughly twice the typical cost of a trailer, but we’ve already seen that sustainable environments are effective teaching tools, as well. Can’t say that for your average modular classroom. ::Office of Mobile Design [by KK]
good morning, Iam preparing my master thesis at Cairo university, the major is 'the mobile petroleum life bases in the sahara'. I want to take advantage from your knowlodge and ask you some questions:
-in your opinion, what are the materials available for mobile buildings (especially homes) in very hot regions like the sahara
- What are the possible ways of services treatment (worn water draining, water and electricty supplying)
- Can you enumerate some known mobile buildings designed for hot regions
thank you very much for your cooperation