Wild Haven
Micro housing series
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Client: Cool Haven, SA
Site: Coimbra Iparque, Portugal Contractor: Cool Haven, SA Architecture: Guilherme Murta Construction Managment: Guilherme Murta Phase: Prototype Year: 2014 Photo credits: Affinity collection by Brad Wilson |
Construction Process + Project
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The Wild
Haven is a micro housing unit built in light steel framing, designed to fully survive in
the nature.
The initial approach was to create a product, not a building but an iconic product, that could either be acquired by companies or privates, and could also transform and adapt itself to the numerous set of activities that people take on during the day, with minimum space consumption.
Pricing and buildability were also huge concerns, so that every phase of the construction process was tested and then optimized, and several materials and equipment were considered to provide an optimal performance.
The strategy of including Eolic and Solar energy was also tested on the prototype, which was design to reuse rain water, as the presentation scheme explains.
As for the image and presentation, I borrowed the work of the Photograph Brad Wilson (in this non-commercial presentation) along with some hyperbolic sceneries to illustrate the direction that this iconic micro capsule should, take into the wild, with an attempt to make it stand out in a distinguish fashion.
The initial approach was to create a product, not a building but an iconic product, that could either be acquired by companies or privates, and could also transform and adapt itself to the numerous set of activities that people take on during the day, with minimum space consumption.
Pricing and buildability were also huge concerns, so that every phase of the construction process was tested and then optimized, and several materials and equipment were considered to provide an optimal performance.
The strategy of including Eolic and Solar energy was also tested on the prototype, which was design to reuse rain water, as the presentation scheme explains.
As for the image and presentation, I borrowed the work of the Photograph Brad Wilson (in this non-commercial presentation) along with some hyperbolic sceneries to illustrate the direction that this iconic micro capsule should, take into the wild, with an attempt to make it stand out in a distinguish fashion.
