A prefab on wheels? That's right...it started in 2005 when Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects ("OSKA") and lead architect Tom Kundig built the Delta Shelter. The Delta Shelter is a 20' x 20', 1,000 square-foot weekend cabin that was constructed in Mazama, Washington (pictures on the next page). Not surprisingly, the owners also wanted something for thier guests...and as a result, the rolling hut was born!
OSKA is currently in the process of building 6 of these rolling huts that can be pushed, wheeled, moved, dragged anywhere the owner wishes. Each single-room hut was designed for the purpose of "drawing an inhabitant's gaze out of the room and towards nature." I like its simplicity and the fact that it is high off the ground. Plus, the fact that you can move these things around...I love the flexibility to change the layout of the huts. Visit OSKA's website here and check out their other projects.
Delta Shelter
Rolling Huts
Seen them. These high priced Airstream posers look cool and immensely uncomfortable. The cabins have no water and no bathroom..........oh yeah, a port a potty appears to have been built into the deck outside. Wrapped in metal these should smell lovely in the Methow Valley's hot and dry summers.
The actual bathroom facility is a bathhouse many steps away. Nothing like walking thru 6 ft of snow to take a pee, shower and walk back to your cabin hoping your locks don't freeze in the -20 degree weather
They appear to have been built for accolades and praise not for an actual human habitation.
I'll take a tent or a yurt and cop a squat outside!
Posted by: beentheredonethat | May 27, 2008 at 09:26 PM
How is the problem of shock absorbtion solved?
Is glass and such removed during transportation?
Posted by: Andrew | October 22, 2008 at 02:18 AM
These things don't actually ROLL!! The whole point of the wheels was to get around a building permit issue. The site was a campground, but some guy with more money then god decided to pay to get around this. Thus the creation of the "rolling" huts. They were built to stroke an ego...Done.
As we live in an area where there is up to 5ft of snow on the ground and no one wanted to walk to the bath house, they had to install port-a-potti's on the sides of the huts. To make this concept more attractive they were wrapped in metal. This feature is desirable both in the winter ( -20 degrees) and in the summer (90-100 degrees)
We laugh every time we drive by.
Rumor is that they cost $700/sq ft!!! Money well spent!
Posted by: mazamagirl | June 05, 2010 at 10:30 PM
As we live in an area where there is up to 5ft of snow on the ground and no one wanted to walk to the bath house, they had to install port-a-potti's on the sides of the huts. To make this
Posted by: Round and Brown | June 26, 2010 at 11:58 AM
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Posted by: air jordans | November 04, 2010 at 02:51 AM
It certainly looks like something that you could do using shipping containers. :)
Posted by: Container Pros | April 11, 2011 at 12:32 PM
These high priced Airstream posers look cool and immensely uncomfortable. The cabins have no water and no bathroom..........oh yeah, a port a potty appears to have been built into the deck outside. Wrapped in metal these should smell lovely in the Methow Valley's hot and dry summers.
Posted by: Paul Rudd | January 20, 2012 at 04:59 AM