MOBILE LIVING

With more and more Americans having to sleep in their cars, it is too bad that Toyota never put this into production. 1973 Toyota Station Wagon turns into RV.

 Here are some great ideas of other people living mobile. From army inspired to RV pop-tents, Treehugger.com has a lot of resources for people living simply.

Living is.be combines the best of an RV (easily mobile) with the efficiency of a popup camper (folds down for less wind resistance) and the comfort of a multistorey townhouse. It even has a hot-tub sized bath on the upper level.

When one designs a boat, trailer, mobile home or RV, it can be fabulous test-beds for designers to show how one can live with less space, how to squeeze every cubic inch out. They also have to deal with many restrictions in weight, shape and dimension. They can also challenge our assumption that we have to live in a fixed location, when one might have a smaller footprint if we lived in smaller spaces and were not so tied down.

 All of the images & text was taken from Tree Hugger.com from article Mobile Living: The Unicat by Lyod Alter, Toronto 01.16.08