HUT (Habitat for the Urban Tribe)

Brand.

Product details

• Product Name: HUT (Habitat for the Urban Tribe)
• Product Type: Furniture
• Principal Designer: Kevin Fawley
• Date of commencement of product: November 2006
• Date of completion of product: April 2007
• Usage environment: Home
• Dimensions: W 30" x H 24" x L 72"
• Prototype cost: $1800 CDN

HUT (Habitat for the Urban Tribe) it is a portable storage unit which comes apart to furnish a living room set with two chairs, a loveseat, coffee table and shelf. It facilitates and ritualizes the nomadic nature of the urban tribe.

"Pick".

"Pack".

"Unpack".

Converts into a single bed.

A trunk is a traveling chest, commonly used during extended periods away from home, in which one can store their personal belongings.

Tribe members are in transition from one family unit to another; from their parent's home to when they themselves settle down. HUT provides the vessel for this voyage.

"Pick, Pack, Unpack"

The primitive tribe lived with a primitive hut; the modern tribe lives with a modern hut. (www.modern-hut.com)

The Unpacking Process ( 10 steps as image frames )

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Credits

• Text and Photographs by Kevin Fawley
• Designed/built for Tom Monteyne's "Business Studio" (Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba).
• Rubber provided by Nora Rubber Flooring.
• Metal frames fabricated by Kehler Made.
• Futon custom made by Dream on Futons.
• Compiled and Edited by Varun M Ajani