Aeroform is conceived as a prototype which explores the dimensionality of the billboard and creates a subsidized living module that would allow people with limited means to live in a home in a major metropolitan city where in the future escalating real estate values would prohibit such home ownership. This fusion of the billboard and the house creates an opportunity for inhabitants to generate income from the billboard in turn subsidizing the exorbitant cost of living in a home in a major metropolis.
Text from the designer :
With Aeroform we wanted to examine ways to occupy residual space within the city? For example, take a common element which is pervasive in every major metropolitan area - the billboard. Now most people perceive the billboard as a simple structure used for the display of two-dimensional graphics. In their minds it is merely a flat plane. What if we start to think about the billboard in a more dimensional way? How can we occupy the space behind or around it? That why we designed Aeroform.
Designer : Nocturnal Design Lab
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8 Responses to “Aeroform : Subsidized Urban Living Module”
By Adam on Sep 17, 2008 | Reply
This would kick butt to live in!
By toyotaboy on Oct 8, 2008 | Reply
I would imagine it would be pretty noisy living RIGHT over a major highway
By gareth on Oct 13, 2008 | Reply
This is so wrong on so many levels. perhaps someone who doesn’t have a problem sucking the collective cocks of the advertising industry whilst residing in a veritable trap of a home that no-one else could possible want to live in (see toyotaboy to find out why) with the resale value of the change in my back pocket would like to live in this thing. I wouldn’t though. Or perhaps you already worked that out.
By SuperSparky on Oct 13, 2008 | Reply
How many billboards do you know of that are piped and ready for sewer and fresh water?
The noise will be the least of your problems. Since billboards are usually only supported by a single shaft, you’ll be rocking in the wind like a boat on the ocean. Any vibration coming up the pipe will be amplified and resonate until it dies down on its own without dampening. Nevermind the dangers of living on a freeway!
I say all of these “new idea” designers be subject to their own creations before they are publicly announced. This one has “dumb idea” written all over it.
By AreYouOffended on Oct 13, 2008 | Reply
I wouldn’t WANT to live in this, but if I had no other option, it’s definitely better than a park bench. I applaud the innovation though.
By Soupbone on Nov 9, 2008 | Reply
I agree, this is a bizarre idea. I assume this is a joke????
By Neopopulas on Nov 9, 2008 | Reply
There are MUCH better places to put this than behind a billboard. under bridges, behind dividing walls, in coastal areas, LOTS of places that aren’t nearly as dangerous. Plus, who wants to climb a ladder after a hard day? At least put it on the GROUND
By josh on Nov 9, 2008 | Reply
How would this be cost effective for people who couldn’t get an apartment? The billboards are already there: Why should someone make money just from moving in behind it?
This is just a trailer with no utilities and terrible accessibility. And it requires a freaking CRANE, as well as some serious maintenance and engineering to remain safe, if only so it doesn’t fall on passers-by.
Lastly, if we’re worried about running out of space in some futuristic city, don’t you think free-standing billboards will undergo innovation before real estate? “Oh noes! We’d all have room to live if those darned billboards weren’t getting in the way. We could either move them up against walls or attach crazy Ewok huts to the back of them….hmm….”