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05APR 2013

Bao House / Dot Architects

Posted in Architecture - Houses by * FORMAKERS

Bao House is designed to be a house detached from land.

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Built with SPF(Spray polyurethane foam), a 2X2 metre cube is fixed on a tricycle, thus the vehicle could move around in the city streets while functioning as a shelter. Bao House is a mobile house exhibited in Sanlitun village, Beijing as part of the “Get It Louder” 2012 Exhibition.

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The brief is to design a mobile house which can be driven by human power.

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The structure was designed and fabricated by dot Architects.

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The exterior of the house is made of SPF. Fabric was deployed as exterior mold, and spray Polyurethane foam was injected.

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As the foam dried it expanded and produced great pressure on the fabric which was fixed to the inner wooden mold at anchor points.

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Each anchor point was connected by strings in order to create a secondary texture.

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Finally a multiple bulge outward was achieved. Bao House gets its name from this bubble-like surface, since “bao” in Chinese means bulge.

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The exterior and interior molds were tear down after the SPF dried and got its shape.

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The structure is light in weight and bold in appearance, water-resistant and thermal-insulated.

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The interior is designed to accommodate three people, with a mattress on the floor and a trans- parent Polycarbonated panel on the roof. The simple layout provides peace and tranquility, as the skylight pours into the pure white solitary space.

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The front side of the Bao House is a 2mX2m sliding door.

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When the door closes the house has a monolithic looking. When the door opens the house gets a maximum access to the surrounding environment.

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The light-weight structure guarantees the mobility of the Bao House.

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The tricycle is driven by manpower, and could be easily transformed into other clean energy driven vehicle.

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SPF is a spray-applied insulating foam plastic that is installed as a liquid and expands many times its original size when exposed to air. Spray polyurethane foam is the king of building materials for multitasking: insulation, air barriers, roofing, etc.

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Having so many characteristics, SPF always conceals behind the finishing surface and functions only as supplementary material though.

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Bao House tries to explore this common material and re-interpret it in a new fabrication system.

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The bubble-like surface of Bao House is only the first step, and we are looking forward to design more Bao-products with more interesting ideas applied..

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