Created from sustainable sources by architect Piers Taylor, and parked in a Somerset valley, is a mobile home that’s both in and of the trees
Mobile home. It takes just two words to stir up the contradictions in British attitudes to that most basic of needs: where, and how, to live. On the one hand, prejudice, embodied in the phrase “trailer trash”, with all its snobbery and classism, and in the ever-present persecution of traveller communities. On the other hand, middle-class fantasies of shepherd’s huts. Yes, David Cameron – pictured last summer, smiling on the steps of his second shepherd’s hut, at his second home – I’m thinking of you.
Deep in a wood in Somerset is a 30m sq mobile home designed to expose these conflicts. Clad in corrugated fibreglass and steel, with a steeply pitched roof and two tall gable ends, it is made from materials sourced from construction waste and from the woods themselves. It was designed by architect Piers Taylor. If you only know Taylor from the TV show he presents with Caroline Quentin, The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes, you probably don’t really know him. While the programme usually follows the pair poking round extravagant, expensive houses, Taylor’s day job and family life are more about economy, frugality and making buildings that challenge some fairly fundamental assumptions behind how we live and work.
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