Trailer Park
Trailer Park
Mobile Public Artwork
2006-Ongoing
Trailer Park is a portable, natural, public park housed inside an 18' x 8’ x 7' mobile Coachmen Travel Trailer. The interior is fully planted, designed, and treated as a "real" park. Hand-laid brick planter beds containing lush shrubs, trees, and plants are complemented by masonry laid in the same tradition as public parks. Ivy climbs the walls where a naturalistic slate rock waterfall and pond provides the soothing sound of trickling water. Concrete and wooden benches invite visitors to rest and enjoy the park view. Skylights provide rays of sunlight beaming in, kissing the interior.
Trailer Park is a site of paradox. It is nonfunctional, yet completely functional in its repurpose. The trailer is convertible and mobile. Modifications to the interior include a drip irrigation system fed from water tanks under the trailer body and can also be fed by a city water connection.
All visitors to the Trailer Park can walk inside to go for a stroll in the park. If you cannot go to the park, the park can go to you. By going inside, you will be able to go outside. A mobile metaphor and transcendent experience, Trailer Park’s transformation is so complete, it brings nature to us, making us the destination.
Since its first showing at The Storefront For Art and Architecture in 2006, Trailer Park has shown in Chelsea, Soho, Bushwick, Williamsburg, The Lower East Side, The Cooper Union and The Supreme Court at Foley Square and continues to evolve as a community based project.
Mobile Public Artwork
2006-Ongoing
Trailer Park is a portable, natural, public park housed inside an 18' x 8’ x 7' mobile Coachmen Travel Trailer. The interior is fully planted, designed, and treated as a "real" park. Hand-laid brick planter beds containing lush shrubs, trees, and plants are complemented by masonry laid in the same tradition as public parks. Ivy climbs the walls where a naturalistic slate rock waterfall and pond provides the soothing sound of trickling water. Concrete and wooden benches invite visitors to rest and enjoy the park view. Skylights provide rays of sunlight beaming in, kissing the interior.
Trailer Park is a site of paradox. It is nonfunctional, yet completely functional in its repurpose. The trailer is convertible and mobile. Modifications to the interior include a drip irrigation system fed from water tanks under the trailer body and can also be fed by a city water connection.
All visitors to the Trailer Park can walk inside to go for a stroll in the park. If you cannot go to the park, the park can go to you. By going inside, you will be able to go outside. A mobile metaphor and transcendent experience, Trailer Park’s transformation is so complete, it brings nature to us, making us the destination.
Since its first showing at The Storefront For Art and Architecture in 2006, Trailer Park has shown in Chelsea, Soho, Bushwick, Williamsburg, The Lower East Side, The Cooper Union and The Supreme Court at Foley Square and continues to evolve as a community based project.
