Mobile Design and Construction Lab
Mobile Design and Construction Lab
In January 2022, the OHMN team purchased an 18’ construction trailer and invited these students to envision and build a Mobile Indigenous Design and Build Workshop to serve as an essential resource for supporting the design and construction of homes in and with First Nations communities. This hands-on design/build project allowed students to expand their design education to include conceptual and material realities that are born out of both Indigenous and Western world views. The trailer design became a site to envision new stories to be told within these communities through supporting activities of essential need, collectivism, and hope. The trailer now completed is poised to be a critical resource that provides the equipment, shelter, resources, safety, and infrastructure necessary to carry out a full construction project, guide teachings, connect people, land protection, feast, and dream.
The design of the trailer includes: tool storage, a design space, safety equipment, a wood stove, indoor seating, a kitchen, meat butchering table, wood storage, interior gathering space, solar panels, generators, outlets and lighting, magnetic and chalk board walls, outhouse with portable compostable toilet, waterproof canopies, a bug screened room, a feasting table, outdoor bench and feasting space.
Contributors
One House Many Nations
Making the Shift
Mino Bimaadiziwin Partnership
Idle No More
University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture Endowment Fund
Brokenhead Ojibway Nation
Big River First Nation
University of Saskatchewan
ED4 Architecture Design Studio
Instructor:
Lancelot Coar
Students:
Jelene Pugoy
Kitty Hong
Aliyah Baerg
Ariana Streu
Michael Wu
Shane patience
Nicholas Lupky
Tara Fuller
Sponsors
Making The Shift to End Youth Homelessness Grant
Flame & Comfort
Metal Supermarket
SCT Welding, Laser and Manufacturing
Dufort Industries
Start Lumber
Excel Industrial
Community Futures
The Green Resilience
Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba
Special Thanks
Big River First Nation
Brokenhead Ojibway Nation
Shawn Bailey
Kelvin Stead
Reanna Merasty
Danielle Dejarlais
Jason Surkan
Kellen Deighton
Shaun De Rooy
Jason Hare
Project Location
Department of Architecture at the University of Manitoba
Year
2021 – 2022