Mobile Dwellings

From portable hotels to personal cloud spaces, mobile dwellings pop up all over

Implications - Just as children like to retreat to self-made forts or tree houses, adults like to retreat to personal spaces as well, signifying a desire for privacy, protection and perhaps a desire for a sense of territory. The creation of mobile dwellings are in answer to our need for temporary shelter.

Trend Themes

  1. Mobile Living — The creation of mobile dwellings are in answer to our need for temporary shelter.
  2. Pop-up Structures — Temporary spaces create impromptu party spots; when paired with the right talent, they can be just as successful as standalone clubs.
  3. Container Housing — Stackable units were quickly recognized for their innovative style and design, creating much greener, more hip alternatives to unused crates.

Industry Implications

  1. Construction — Companies working on the development and construction of mobile homes and structures have a huge potential in disrupting the traditional housing market and providing temporary solutions to people in need.
  2. Hospitality and Tourism — The mobile hospitality industry is growing rapidly and businesses in the tourism industry can benefit by providing innovative and unique experiences for their customers through pop-up hotels.
  3. Transportation and Logistics — Companies offering transportation and logistics services have a huge potential in providing effective ways to move and transport mobile homes and container housing around the world, opening up new markets and business opportunities.
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Featured Examples

Contained Living
Contained Living
TempoHousing In Sea Containers
These funky homes are created out of recycled freight containers and are growing rapidly in popularity. The original idea by Dutch company TempoHousing was for the shelters to function as temporary housing,… MORE
Portable Clouds- A Relaxing Workplace Retreat by Monica Forster
Portable Clouds- A Relaxing Workplace Retreat by Monica Forster
The Cloud by Monica Forster is a portable room that can be used as a relaxing workplace retreat, a unique meeting place, for meditation, or as an ideal escape for creative brainstorming. A space of its… MORE
Portable 5 Star Hotel with 50 Person Capacity
Portable 5 Star Hotel with 50 Person Capacity
Long ago, Trend Hunter featured two mobile hotel rooms that travel the world, HERE and HERE. Now, we have a new addition, Hotelmovil. The difference is that Hotelmovil has a 50 person capacity. Hotelmovil… MORE
Astro Abodes
Astro Abodes
Micro Dwelling Makes a Stellar Addition to the Home
This looks like something you’d expect to see orbiting the Earth but it is in fact a new form of totally portable building known as Micro Dwellings. Micro dwellings consist of multiple modules that can… MORE
play_circle_filledMobile Pod Hotels
Mobile Pod Hotels
DWR Airstream RV
The iconic silver bullet goes mainstream modern with a fabulous makeover by Design Within Reach and Christopher Deam. The mobile equivalent to The Pod Hotel, I hear that these 16- foot cute little gems… MORE
Pop-Up Nightclubs
Pop-Up Nightclubs
Kubik
Located near Berlin's river Spree, Kubik's modular design literally glows in the dark, with dozens of conventional 1000-litre water tanks used to create a temporary installation. On the weekends the tanks… MORE