The Bao House is a Chinese Tricycle-Powered Mobile Home

The Chinese studio dot Architects re-imagines the mobile home.

ByDanny Vazquez

Nov 26, 2012

In Chinese, the word "bao" means bulge. Which is why the designers of Chinese studio dot Architects named their latest project the "Bao House," a tricycle-powered mobile home made out of spray polyurethane foam (SPF) which provides a bubble-like surface for the exterior of this mobile home project. Water-resistant and thermally insulated, SPF is a material not normally used as an exterior surface. Presented as a human-powered mobile living space for Get It Louder 2012, a visual art and design exhibition held at the Sanlitun Village shopping centre in Beijing.

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