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Created: 10/12/09
Last Edited: 10/12/09
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Fields: Architecture
From: Jan Lim's Portfolio
MOBILE HOME PARK: re-considered, re-designed, re-imagined
Pacoima, Los Angeles, California
In the 1940’s, the mobile home was invented as a prefabricated machine for year-round living but is temporarily fixed in one place. This traditional mobile home had several distinct problems including lack of air/light quality, personal privacy, security, and adaptability for expansion. Despite these inherent deficiencies, the mobile home and the specially zoned communities it occupies, have social benefits and a performative potential that far eclipses it’s problems. Taking this history into consideration, my proposal is to re-design a standardized manufacture system and park which proves that this new type is capable of shedding it’s former social stigma to become a hallmark of sustainable living, efficient land use, and for future suburban development.
The approach to the presentation is in the form of a light hearted advertisement to a serious situation. There are facts, figures, and descriptions to the mobile home community as well as to each singular unit.
Pacoima, Los Angeles, California
In the 1940’s, the mobile home was invented as a prefabricated machine for year-round living but is temporarily fixed in one place. This traditional mobile home had several distinct problems including lack of air/light quality, personal privacy, security, and adaptability for expansion. Despite these inherent deficiencies, the mobile home and the specially zoned communities it occupies, have social benefits and a performative potential that far eclipses it’s problems. Taking this history into consideration, my proposal is to re-design a standardized manufacture system and park which proves that this new type is capable of shedding it’s former social stigma to become a hallmark of sustainable living, efficient land use, and for future suburban development.
The approach to the presentation is in the form of a light hearted advertisement to a serious situation. There are facts, figures, and descriptions to the mobile home community as well as to each singular unit.
Capturing the Mobile Home Film Documentary
Mobile home parks are hidden from the rest of the city because of their negative connotation, appearance, and living conditions. The approach to the documentary was influenced by my thesis project research. I felt that numerical figures and photographs could not explain the situations that residents in mobile homes were facing. By using motion pictures to capture the essence of several locations around Pacoima, I was able to capture footage and interviews that expressed deeper emotions. By observing the mobile home parks and listening to the residents wants and needs, it created a structure that helped me when making design decisions and proposals.
Mobile home parks are hidden from the rest of the city because of their negative connotation, appearance, and living conditions. The approach to the documentary was influenced by my thesis project research. I felt that numerical figures and photographs could not explain the situations that residents in mobile homes were facing. By using motion pictures to capture the essence of several locations around Pacoima, I was able to capture footage and interviews that expressed deeper emotions. By observing the mobile home parks and listening to the residents wants and needs, it created a structure that helped me when making design decisions and proposals.
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