French product designer Stephanie Bellanger came up with this ingenious trailer prototype–the entire thing expands into a 252°, five-room apartment when stationary, and then folds into itself like a Tetris game or a Japanese wooden fan when you’re on-the-go. [via Yanko Design]
Trailer expands into five-room mobile apartment
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You realize that’s not a real photo right?
Also no ceiling, and especially no explanation as to where tp store that floor segment.
It’s neat but if there’s ever even an attempt at making a real prototype I’ll eat my hat*. So frequently these designs are mocked up to be shiny but with no real attempt at practicality, otherwise all the homeless would have homes.
* it’s made of cheddar just in Case.
Why… why is it color-coded? And not real-looking?
Yay! Unuseable designer website! Chalk it up!
On the unusable website there was an image showing the roof partially deployed, accordion style tent looking thing. As for the huge floor, no clue where that is supposed to come from.
It looks cool and I would be pleased to see this actually exist.
The cat looks to be enjoying her self.
The writeup does refer to this as a prototype…
@ #1
I came here to say that exact thing.
And despite you getting there first…I will still say it.
Where exactly does the floor come from?
WHERE DOES THE FLOOR COME FROM?
since this is not real , I would imagine it just overlaps when closed and can only be closed when nothings on the floor (so floor for room 1 overlaps floor for room 2 and so on ) .
WHY DOES BOING BOING KEEP POSTING STUPID (not wonderful) DESIGNS?
To annoy us to comment about the ridiculous designs and their impracticality.
MY STAB – good idea / stupid designer / already been implement
This design has already been implimented in RVs with extensible rooms.
I think there are a few designs for the floor that might work. Hinged panels supported by those poles on the bottom, some sort of telescoping design, or they might fold up whole between the segments. I don’t think it exists, but it doesn’t look impossible.
Whenever something cool like this shows up, part of me wants to live a nomadic lifestyle, idly driving around the US and writing airy travel novels. Given the state of the publishing industry, however, I’d have to be pretty lucky to make gas money.
Obviously the floor is towed in a separate trailer. Or it can be purchased at service stations along the way and disposed of at the end of the trip.
Is there now a requirement in design schools that all concepts must be maximally design-y no matter the damage to utility, sense and logic? That goes double for the pathetic web site. What? Someone actually got past all the fancy and viewed a picture in there? Quick! Add more Design!
Doubters. It’s good for someone to dream a currently impossible dream – materials science will catch up!
Bach wrote music that was unplayable on the instruments available in his day. I bet a lot of people told him it was worthless. But who are they, and what are they remembered for? Mocking Bach?