DARA MADRID DEAN

PULTE MANUFACTURED HOUSING

Competition, 2011

 

 

This project was for the Pulte Manufacturing Group.  The idea was to create a new type of manufactured housing.  I started with my floorplan of the single-wide and began to break it up and re-arrange the spaces.  I split the house into 12'w x 18'l modules and moved them around both in plan and elevation.  It's impossible to think that one home can be right for everybody, so I wanted to establish a system that could be modified for each individual or family and, in turn, transform, aesthetically, the American landscape.  I focused on the interior spaces, attempting to make them more multi-use/flexible.

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In this project, I got rid of the ‘spine’ wall and implemented this idea of a box that volumes are inserted into, where only the inside is transformable.  The shell would be comprised of attachable/detachable pods for different stages of life that could be sold back to the company to be re-used.  There are no load bearing walls on the inside, which means no real renovations if pods are removed or added.  It’s just a shell that you are able to pull parts in and out of. Essentially, this project really lends itself to the DIY culture.

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