This the 2005 Intrigue LE from Country Coach

Here is the new Safari Trek Motorhome for 2005. The Safari is shorter than most Class A Motorhomes, it doesn't have a bedroom in the back. The bed on the Safari comes down from the ceiling in the are between the kitchen and the front driver area.

The design below is also from the Renault Traffic Design Competition. This is a hotel design that provides for the traveler's vehicle (motorhome) being parked in the hotel room.



This is the AltaVisa translation of the description of the design from German to English:
The car in the living room is a picture often seen in Lifestyle magazines. In the europark.01, a hotel concept sketched for the Aachener European place, has to offer it however to more than style. Whether in business, with vacation trips or short stays on the way, the free standing tower offers 85 park boxes on 17 park days altogether for the accommodation of the travelers and vehicles. And this in the same, two-story area with minimum execution, in order to ensure a favorable price level, and a loggia with wonderful view over the city. The entrance to the own park dwelling takes place via an automatic paternoster lift system. By the lobby, beside which also a Bistro with bar and a small Shop are, one can reach the town center shuttle station fast to foot. The project convinces 21 by the focusing on the needs of modern humans. Century, which always mobilely on the way is and which sees car simultaneous as preferential means of transport and extension of the own habitat. The technical and architectural aspects were solved likewise in such a way that an economic conversion is not impossible.

These photos are from the Monarch Signature 2005 Motorhome. This is one of the apartments you can park in the new seven story New York City apartment building below.



Solid wood cabinet doors, detailed decorative slide-out fascia and a raised panel bathroom door. Plush fabric and leather furnishings. Legless side-slide solid surface dinette table with two stylish chairs.

The New Seven Story New York City Apartment Building

mobiler parkplatz


This design concept is titled mobiler parkplatz and apparently was entered into the Renault Traffic Design competition in 2001. Below is AltaVista's translation of the description of the design from German.

The draft points different dimensions out of a flexible, transportable unit, which can become the multi-storey car park on time. Put up "Parker" does not only serve seven vehicles as parking lot. The flying building is at the same time a temporary Monument, which can be carriers of information, advertisement or Begruenung. Folded up "Parker" can be brought by low loaders to a place of work and be set up by a person. On the surface area of two parking bays seven cars are accommodated and moved with an elevator. Also lining up of several "Parker" are conceivable, with those for instance an elevator served three "Parker", then develop on six parking bays surface area up to 21 parking possibilities. The change of strong operational readiness level and complete disappearing from the urban space fascinated the jury. Usually multi-storey car parks are everything else as ephemere buildings, which can set up rapidly and be divided again.

With sport and music vents, in building gaps, backyards and on free surfaces - not least with car dealers - "Parker" can be used. A service concept, with which with the purchase of a certain vehicle the use of the "Parkers" should be free, is part of the project, which was noticeable in addition by its clear communication pleasantly.http://www.renault-traffic-design.de/pages/award2001/hochschule_1.html
Preis: "mobiler parkplatz"
Entwurf: Barbara Hurler, Kolja Janiszewski, Julian Krüger
Hochschule: Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste, Stuttgart
Professoren: Prof. Eduard Schmutz, Prof. Winfried Scheuer

I think the "rough" translation is saying that you could have two or three of these units with one elevator system servicing all three units;three units would result in 21 parking bays.

This is just a plain old two story building

This design reportedly won the Renault Award for Traffic Design 2000. This is from Wöhr Parksafe



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Here is a parking structure with "vehicle elevators" that we can use for our Trailers In The Sky project. This design is from an Italian website called Progetti - Ideal Park

Beyond the Trailer Park
by Lynn Becker

The Corpod and the Lacan Project concepts presented here can be found in Lynn Becker's Beyond the Trailer Park -
Out of the Box - Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing at the Field Museum at http://www.lynnbecker.com/repeat/beyondtra...innovations.htm

This is what was said about the Corpod:

The concept features a concrete shell that incorporates the conduit system for electricity, heating, and water -- traditionally (and expensively) installed on-site; the CorPod itself, which contains "a complete kitchen, bathroom, storage, utility, and entertainment technologies," is lifted by crane and fitted into the shell, which is then finished with windows, doors and stairs...

If you have ever seen a property owner in New York City upgrade a building in order to slap luxury on it and sell it to aholes with no clue, then you know that most of the construction in New York City is total and absolute shit. I've been in apartments that qualify as luxury in New York City and, believe me, most of them would not qualify as a luxury anywhere else in the world.

The idea of a well constructed pre-fabricated housing unit makes so much sense in New York City, because such a unit is very likely to be the only thing in New York City that is well construction. And, the idea of being able to drive your apartment out of the city on weekends, or whenever you feel like it also has to be appealing to a lot of people. So, without further delay, I present to you

The New Drive Away New York City Apartment


This Drive Away Apartment is actually a Trek Motorhome. My/Our idea is for people to buy shell buildings or parking structures to house their motorhomes as the big new thing in housing in New York City.

Trek Motorhome -

Example of Concrete Shell Building - The Corpod -

Example of a Building that could house Two or More Teks with an upper communal level



Wil Smith's Trailer

Below is a blog entry titled Trailers In The Sky that was written by Christopher Paige at http://www.honation.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=550 . CLICK HERE for our Strictly Real Estate ™ forum

Sometimes I think that there could not possibly be another person on the planet who had gone in and out of as many different worlds as I have. My world, at least the world that I grew up in in Louisiana, is, as you might imagine, different from New York City. I think that one of the reasons why I like tourist from Canada and Europe so much is that we have this "pretending to fit in" thing in common (when in fact we are operating on a completely different operating system than New Yorkers are).

Anywho, one day as a result of needing cash immediately, I took a job to be an assistant to this guy who installed and maintained/repaired air conditioners in apartments in New York City. I ended up going into apartments in New York City that I probably never would have otherwise entered. Here are my observations:

Some of the apartments we went into were considered "luxury"/"expensive" but they all looked small and silly, except for one apartment which was two levels and belonged to the owner/builder of the apartment building that it was in.

Also, in every apartment, no matter how high priced or luxurious it was suppose to be, there was always dirt and filth around the air conditioner once you removed the front cover. In the most expensive apartment, the one belonging to the owner of the building, there was actually a lot of water that had gotten into the air conditioner area and there could have been all kinds of God knows what kind of mold growing in there.

Another apartment we went to had two bedrooms, a large (by NYC standards) master bedroom for this couple and a little bedroom for their child. The couple that lived in this apartment had designated this little area in their living room between their sofa and the window as a play area for their child, as this area was full of all kinds of little toys.

As I looked around this couple's apartment, of course I wondered how much they could be paying to live in this two bedroom apartment in Manhattan on the 28th floor. You can only imagine what kind of jobs these two people would have needed to afford such a place. And, as I looked around the apartment, another thing that struck me was that there really wasn't much in it. There wasn't anything in the apartment that looked really expensive and, what struck me about almost all of the apartments, was that there was little if anything in the apartments that looked PERSONAL. I mean all of the apartments had your generic looking furnishings, and it looked like if you took the furnishings out of one and put them in another, no one would notice.

As I looked around what had to be an expensive two bedroom apartment that any New Yorker would probably brag about having, it just seemed to me that the total living area had to be less than what you would have in your basic trailer in a trailer park.

In fact, all of the apartments (except for the huge apartment of the owner of that one building) looked like little trailers in the sky.

Did you see "A Clockwork Orange"? In the movie A Clockwork Orange, Alex breaks into this building/house and there is this old woman living in it with a lot of cats. The old woman was walking around the place in a thing that looked like a one piece swim suit. Alex runs into trouble trying to rob the woman's house and is arrested.

Well, when I was helping this air conditioner guy, when we went into this one expensive apartment, the old woman who lived in the apartment answered the door wearing what looked like a one-piece swimsuit. The first thing that went through my mind was the movie A Clockwork Orange.