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Sanei Hopkins Architects: Mobile Eco Homes

Sanei Hopkins Architects: Mobile Eco Homes

"The project started when we had to replace all four tyres of our seven seater. I wanted to re-use these somehow, and when I was sitting in the corridors at UCLH waiting for our daughter to be born I sketched the initial idea around the use of the four tyres and re-using left over."


Sanei Hopkins Architects
Having created a series of follies/play spaces in a Suffolk garden (see previous years' Small Projects) Sanei Hopkins made this Mobile Eco Second Home using leftover materials. Stacking seven people vertically, this simple construction uses the space beneath the double bunk at the top for horizontal circulation, with the ends of the beds doubling as a ladder for vertical access. Detachable wheels make the sleeping space mobile – it is turned on its side to attach/detach the wheels. It can be towed by a car for longer-distance travel and can also be pushed along by two people.