Space age weekend escape – living in a Blob
I don’t care if it’s crazy, this Blob by architects dmvA makes me want to walk right up and stroke it
The Blob
the way it opens up is totally space-age
Blob Open
and inside, all those little compartments – can you see the shower up in the nose cone, and the kitchen tucked in on the right?
Inside the Blob
One reason I have a soft spot for this blob is that it is like something my Dad could have invented. I have many happy memories of summers in the ’70s when we traveled through Europe in the home-made camper van that he built by hand on a Ford Transit chassis. It was unpainted, and had a distinct organic feel to it. And inside? Lots of secret compartments, each specially sized and constructed to contain a particular item – one for his tool-kit, one for the tent, one for the outboard engine for the boat that was strapped to the van’s roof, others for the food, the pots and pans, the dishes. The best one of all was for the camping stove and its gas bottle, specially located so that we could light it up and boil the kettle for tea while driving along. (And unless you’ve brewed tea, never forgetting to warm the pot, while driving down the autobahns or negotiating the hairpin bends of the Yugoslavian coast road, you haven’t really brewed tea at all).
Which brings ne to one question with this Blob – it looks like a great weekend camper, but how do you get it to where you want it? Perhaps you parachute it in from above? I could imagine enormous trebuchets on the edge of the city, tossing blobs in every direction on Friday afternoons as people escape to the country …
All photos Vercruysse Frederik at OWI
