Mobile Dwelling Unit Views
Architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, known as LOT/EK, have cultivated a body of work incorporating rugged elements of industry into their projects. Currently on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art is their architectural prototype, the Mobile Dwelling Unit (MDU), which incorporates a domestic program into a building-block of commerce: the shipping container.
Designed by LOT-EK in 2002, the Mobile Dwelling Unit utilizes a single 8’ x 40’ shipping container to create a live/work space. The containers can be used individually or in combination with other modules. A single unit divides spaces into three sub-spaces – sleeping, working and cooking – grouped according to function.
Description: New. 160 pages. The Mobile DwellingUnit (MDU) is a shipping... New. 160 pages. The Mobile DwellingUnit (MDU) is a shipping container transformed into a dwelling that nevertheless retains the attributes of a shipping container, i.e. it remains shippable. It is a discreet mobile element that can be moved.
Description: New. Renowned for their transformations of commonplace... New. Renowned for their transformations of commonplace industrial objects, Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano (LOT-EK) take on a standardized shipping container. The resulting project, Mobile Dwelling Unit (MDU), transforms an existing 40-foot-long shipping container into a portable living space. As a container-mobile home, it can be easily transported with a truck, train or ship to its next location. Source imagery, construction drawings, photographs of the fabrication process are accompanied by interviews with Lignano and Tolla and essays by Aaron Betsky, Robert Kronenburg and Henry Urbach.
Mobile Dwelling Unit Images
