This conceptual exploration seeks to redefine the concept of inhabiting, using contemporary technologies and applying the industrialization as a tool. Thinking about proposing a type of construction based in the automotive industry, VIMOB XS is manufactured in a workshop and then shipped in a truck to the construction site in an unmounted way. The design of the different pieces allows for fast on-site assembly, using a minimum number of tools.
This module was initially installed in a design exhibition in the city of Medellín in just two days and later relocated to its current location. However, since it’s exploration, it was sought to be an experience with the landscape, establishing connections and links with its shapes, materials, textures, and colors that give it the properties of a mimetic module, reposed in the space and with the ability of mutation. Consequently, it becomes a flexible shelter who resigned to become an object and now provides a real and deep experience with the environment.
It lies in the middle of a forest, and rather than trying to transform the natural landscape where it was implanted, it suggests being an amalgam in the place, allowing the architecture to be part of the environment, and not to alter it.
Each piece of VIMOB XS is designed and produced to be adaptable and adjustable to the mainframe. Therefore, there is higher efficiency in the work site and the finishes. Also, compared to other types of construction within our system, there is a reduction of waste of raw materials, environmental transportation costs, execution times, the impact of the location of the natural site and unforeseen work.
With the intention of reflecting the modern life and creating a dynamic architecture, this archetype seeks to leave a positive footprint, be a generator of change that risks introducing a new experience in the way of living, which is more efficient, responsible, aesthetic, and friendly with the environment.