This project reconceptualizes mobile living to offer an alternative way of housing in San Francisco where the freedom of mobility and a vehicle’s envelop, is treated within the framework of care and maintenance.

Situated near Balboa Park Bart Station, this safe parking site is transformed into a transitional space to support vehicular and mobile living for residents.

Where the ground level allows for vehicle maintenance, the expanded workshop on the first level gives room for another means of construction to take place. As transient users occupy the structure for six month increments, the workshop offers a makers space equipped with car lofts and mechanical lifts to allow for fabrication of materials and homes prior to departure.

Through a catalog of parts, wall systems and structural components are prefabricated and shipped to create the basic framework of the building. The mechanics of care, such as construction tools, auto repair lifts, and materials, are then infilled to suggest a symbiotic relationship between the two. The boundaries vehicle and the home become negotiable, and the building acts as a conduit, where the act of maintenace and care extend beyond the boundaries of a set of walls and its wheels.