Container Home Off-Grid Emergency Response Studio by Paul Villinski is a solar-powered, mobile artist’s studio, repurposed from a salvaged FEMA-style trailer. This Container Home Off-Grid is a large wall section cranks down to create a deck. Ten foot geodesic skylight provides natural light and headroom and a section of aluminum siding was replaced with clear sheathing. Emergency Response Studio reconstructed with denim insulation, zero-VOC paints, bamboo cabinetry, CFLs, reclaimed wood, and floor tiles from linseed oil. The 30-foot Gulfstream Cavalier has been gutted to get rid of toxic materials. This sustainably re-built, off-the-grid living and work space is designed to enable artists to “embed” in post-disaster settings, and respond and contribute creatively.

Container Home Off-Grid Emergency Response Studio ERS South

Container Home Off-Grid Emergency Response Studio ERS North

Container Home Off-Grid Emergency Response Studio Geodesic Roof

Container Home Off-Grid Emergency Response Studio

Container Home Off-Grid Emergency Response Studio is currently exhibited at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts’ courtyard and accompanied by an exhibition in Zilkha Gallery, through Nov 8, 2009. The studio is entirely powered by a 1.6 kilowatt photo-voltaic solar system featuring an array of nine large solar panels which tilt upward from the trailer’s roof to face the sun.

Emergency Response Studio has been reconstructed with sustainable, green materials – recycled denim insulation, zero-VOC paints, bamboo cabinetry, compact fluorescent lighting, reclaimed wood and floor tiles made from linseed oil – minimizing the structure’s carbon footprint and enhancing quality of life for its inhabitants.