112 W. Center St., Suite 700
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone (479) 575-4945
Fax (479) 575-7429
112 W. Center St., Suite 700
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone (479) 575-4945
Fax (479) 575-7429
TrailerWrap, Boulder, Colo.
An aging mobile home has brought major recognition to architect Michael Hughes, an assistant professor in the School of Architecture, and three former colleagues at the University of Colorado. They have won a 2008-09 Collaborative Practice Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) for TrailerWrap, which Hughes describes as a “wonderful small house that just happens to be on a mobile home chassis."
The project was initiated while Hughes was teaching at the University of Colorado and involved collaboration among a team of faculty members, researchers, and more than forty students working with the non-profit Thistle Community Housing and the Mapleton Mobile Home Owner’s Association over two years. TrailerWrap has been published in GOOD Magazine, Metropolitan Home and most recently in the October 2008 issue of Dwell, in an article exploring the design possibilities of trailer parks.
“Trailer parks are a way that more people could afford to live in urban settings, in the heart of expensive cities, and retain an interpretation of the American dream,” Hughes said. He added that there is interest in exploring these ideas in Fayetteville.
Hughes previously won an ACSA Collaborative Practice Award in 2006 for the Joy House Project, which involved 12 students in the design and construction of a new courtyard, play areas and social spaces at a Denver shelter for victims of domestic violence.