This camper van is designed to connect with nature 🍃
Regarded as the millennial take on camper vans, Base Cabin is the new travel initiative providing smart spaces to connect with natureWe are certainly not recommending a road trip in these self-isolating times, but that said, we confess we’re sorely tempted to snap up a Base Cabin to store away for future jaunts.
The brief from Edwards’ client, Base Cabin Building Company, was succinct in its ambitions, specifying ‘a considered, functional and flexible space that provides a fresh design approach to the micro-home typology’ – a lofty diktat that translates into Base Cabin being used primarily as a mobile weekender but, if that’s too much of an effort, in situ as a garden studio, or even as an unobtrusive rural escape.
The final polyhedronal design involved a subtle sleight of hand inspired by the classic A-frame cabin and Airstream trailer. Having worked almost predominantly in bricks-and-mortar design, Edwards knew ‘the A-frame is structurally efficient and uses less material that conventional portal frame’, an especially important consideration for weight and drag resistance during transportation.
Perhaps. Base Cabin certainly transcends its specs as Edwards wraps the cabin’s lightweight 2.5m by 6m steel frame in black rubber and lines its 15 sq m interior with marine plywood. ‘It’s quite mute in its appearance,’ he says, ‘and I felt the black is unobtrusive and helps it blend into the background.’
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