Or how to take the cabin to your favorite corner
The idea of run the Dakar with a motorcycle powered by renewable energies arises by putting a handrail in Malpica. He has been doing riding a motorcycle and seeing the world since, at the age of 6, he got on a 50 cc Bernelli. He has participated seven times in the Dakar, and this promised to be a revolution in terms of mechanics. But the pandemic came. And you had to reinvent yourself.
Son of Galician emigrants, he was born in Venezuela. When he touches Galician land, that ability to adapt does not disappear. In Galicia we say that “head non stop” (the head does not stop), when ideas boil in our brain and we have to take them out to prevent it from boiling.
As simple as reaching the destination and setting it up in less than a morning
A Fran Gomez Pallas It happens when the break arrives. In addition to participating in the Dakar, he had been wanting to set up his own campsite for some time. An adventure camp for athletes, who could enjoy the outdoors and sports activities without neglecting comfort of a deserved retirement. He thought that the cabins were modular, what could they be transported in a truck and whose assembly did not last for months but hours.
He builds a pilot cabin in Bértoa, which belongs to Carballo, province of A Coruña, and the Quechova brand as an idea of the future. He even dreamed that, if things went further, he could design other products under that same brand, such as modular doghouses, or merchandise.
the cabin has Galician slate roof, wood treated with a Japanese method and insulation. When he introduces her to the world, calls begin to arrive from all over the peninsula. The first interested party is a campsite in O Grove. Who says that he wants 12, just like that. And the demand skyrockets.
Therefore, they have started mechanize the company and expand it, and to work with other companies to take care of plumbing or carpentry. From the production process to the legal process, we don't want there to be any surprises when placing it on the ground. So that when you reach your destination It takes less than a morning to put it on and you can enjoy it that same afternoon.
Bathroom, kitchen and terrace included. And then the extras. You ask for what you want. Modular cabins are like this
Bathroom, kitchen and terrace included. The width has a limit of 4 meters -because of taking it by truck-, but the length varies according to demand. And the extras too. You ask for what you want. Modular cabins are like that. An invention that seems to come from the future, but as a concept it has been around for a long time.
It was two centuries ago, at the same time and at the antipodes of each other. In full colonial expansion, back in 1830, both in Australia and the United States, the demand for more affordable housing skyrockets.
In the United States there was a lot of wood, but few carpenters. The architects Augustine Taylor and George Washington Snow they begin to replace carpentry joints with nails. It was easier that way and didn't require such specialized hands. The heavy beams and pillars were changed to make everything with small slats that shared the load. The first construction with this system, which was renamed Balloon Frame, it was Saint Mary's Church in Chicago, 1833. Today the entire West is impregnated with these constructions -the cowboy and Indian movies that Grandma used to watch with 'Juan Vaine' all serious have that style-.
In Australia, the carpenter Herbert John Manning designs a portable house for his son, emigrated to a distant colony. He thought of lightening materials and building something simple that could be easily assembled. The idea was that the house could be carried almost on the shoulders, that each element did not weigh more than what a person could carry on their backs. Thus, in 1833, the first portable house was born. It's called a portable house. Manning Cottage. As soon as it hits the market, it revolutionizes it.
Enjoy nature and views from wherever you want
Both ways of building become so popular that they are even sold by catalog. As it is. On this website you can see pages of hundreds of models of modular homes that were made to order. The sears-catalogue he sold tens of thousands of these kit houses even before World War II.
Great architects like Frank Lloyd WrightWalter Gropius -father of the Bauhaus- or Le Corbusier they innovated ideas and formats based on this premise. Jean Prove He came to design a vacation home capable of being assembled or disassembled in 5 hours by 5 people. The house - including the kitchen, the table and the beds - weighed less than 2 tons, despite being built with steel.
was formed the idea of modular housing in industrialized architecture that continues to this day with practical examples such as the Quechova cabins. We have seen them a thousand times without noticing them. From western movies to science fiction. The Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa appears in Wolverine Immortal and you didn't even know that he drank from this current -and from the Japanese architectural metabolism-. Now you will see Blade Runner and The Fifth Element with different eyes. Seeing if they are custom made containers. And thinking about saving to have one in the middle of the forest.
What if you could travel with the house in tow (literally)?