Architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners have released a time-lapse movie showing their adaptation of a 70-year-old Jean Prouvé house being assembled in a field.
The London architects have added pods containing a bathroom and a kitchen to an original 6×6 Demountable House, designed by the French architect-engineer in 1944. Mobile solar power and hot water systems are mounted on specially designed trolleys.
The movie shows how quickly Prouvé’s flatpack structure, made of timber and folded-steel components, can be assembled. Prouvé intended each house to fit on a single truck and require just three people to assemble it in a day.
“In keeping with the original design, all components can be manually assembled and dismantled easily on site, and different panel locations can be configured to suit specific locations,” said RSHP.
“Placing the pods on the outside maintains the flexibility of the original internal layout, and the trolleys ensure the house has an independent supply of water and energy so it can be built in any environment.”
The home is a rare surviving original from a series of lightweight, single-room dwellings that Prouvé created to help alleviate the post-war housing shortage in France.
Galerie Patrick Seguin, a French gallery that specialises in the work of Prouvé, recently invited RSHP to update the house for use as a holiday home.
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