Mobile Porch is a multifunctional mini architecture to roam neighbourhoods, a tool for contact, and a place for self-publishing local activities. Everyone is invited to use it, shape it, mold it.
The deliberately flexible design offers a stage, a screen, a reception desk, a dinner table, a shop, an exhibition board, a workshop, a billboard, a hang-out - an endless range of functions and possibilities for public use both for the here and now, and future public realm planning.
With initial support from the Art for Architecture Award, Jes Fernie, and Clare Cumberlidge, on the invitation of Georgia Ward.
The Mobile Porch subsequently moved on to public realm projects and programmes including Parasite Paradise at Leidsche Rijn near Utrecht, Kunstprojekte Riem in Munich, Mannesmann Pilotentwicklung Munich, CCA Sevilla, The Public in West Bromwich, London Festival of Architecture and others.
See also Public Works website.
Mobile Porch looks like a large drum and moves on two ball-bearing wheels, Westway London 1999
Mobile Porch as WMK Mobil at Kunstprojeket Riem, Munich, 2001
Mobile Porch looks like a large drum and moves on two ball-bearing wheels, Westway London 1999
Mobile Porch as WMK Mobil at Kunstprojeket Riem, Munich, 2001