PROJECT
The Poisonous Soil Does Not Bother the Stilt-Legged Roverine But The Water Is Undrinkable
A 2015 academic project on micro-housing and climate change. In November 2021, I added new drawings, writing, and graphic layouts, expanding The Roverine into a featured article for Spectacular, a new architecture network and online journal.
MY ROLES
designer
CONTRIBUTIONS
+ built model entirely by hand using aluminum, vinyl, basswood, piano wire, and hardware
+ drew site plan and built site model by hand
+ photographed model
+ revamped project with graphic layouts and new hybrid site plan drawing
RESULT
featured project on Spectacular's homepage The Roverine
TEAM
personal project
THE ROVERINE is a proposal for an ambulatory micro-housing development on vacant industrial lots. The project began as a sardonic response to the heedless environmental degradation of the last two centuries, targeting the site of a former coal gasification plant in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Instead of dealing with the $5M cleanup to prevent further contamination of the Huron River watershed, The Roverine skips right to the real estate developer pitch:
Designed and manufactured in Chicago by Universan Systems, The Roverine is a prefabricated vehicular home containing hyper-essentialized living quarters. Each unit can link together using railways for long-distance transport. When on-site, the Roverines extend tubular aluminum legs to traverse previously uninhabitable terrain such as poisonous bogs. With legumes, arugula, and sunflowers on track to be the most viable calorie crops of the 2050's, operators can navigate to agricultural plots and park their homes in clusters of like-minded Roverine inhabitants. The base package includes:
+ modular kitchen with filter spigot, e-kettle, liquid recycling drain, clay bowl, and ceramic spoon
+ haptic thought operation system with manual voice control options
+ full solar power using the same leaflet technology manufactured in Bezopolis, Mars.
+ uninhabited vehicular recycling program subscription
+ thermal mist shower
+ twin-sized hydrogen murphy bed + waste fission chamber
+ composting toilet Project
Named in reference to the drawing titled: Gigantic Roverine with Young All poisonous All islands of Universan seas and oceans. Also in Calverina Angelinia and Abbieannia. by Henry Darger (1892–1973)
