{"id":2615,"date":"2013-08-09T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2013-08-09T02:47:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T06:47:07","slug":"from-urban-billboard-to-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2013\/08\/09\/from-urban-billboard-to-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"From urban billboard to affordable housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/feature-urban-planet.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2422\" alt=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Canadian cities, mammoth-like, urban advertising billboards are a common fixture.<\/p>\n<p>However, they are as well in Belgium. We know, because a Belgian artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karlphilips.org\">Karl Philips<\/a>, has reinvented the billboard into nomadic housing, not too different than a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benefitz.co.nz\/media\/sitephoto\/trailers\/Benefitzz%20Trailer1.jpg\">trailer billboard<\/a>, in his project &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/popupcity.net\/interventions\/belgian-artist-transforms-billboards-into-houses-for-urban-nomads\/\">The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The miniature, guerrilla apartments are towed behind a vehicle as they camouflage with the already over-burdened streetscapes. While nomadic urban living may not be ideal for all, the advertising revenues received from living within a billboard may help alleviate the discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>Entrenched in the irony of the contemporary city, a line of advertising trailers is a common sight and an accepted one. Unfortunately, a village of nomadic urbanites is not.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time a billboard has been inhabited either (and it surely won&#8217;t be the last). Architect Julio Gomez Trevilla in Mexico City designed <a href=\"http:\/\/popupcity.net\/marketing\/billboard-turned-into-an-artist-residency\/\">a temporary residence for artists\u00a0<em>inside<\/em> a billboard.<\/a>\u00a0His project was called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribebillboard.com\/\">Scribe Billboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Scribe-Billboard-4-e1376030559922.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2622\" alt=\"Scribe-Billboard-4\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Scribe-Billboard-4-600x398.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Brooklyn, artist and archtiect, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chattravieso.com\/\">Chat Travieso<\/a>, designed a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/popupcity.net\/interventions\/collapsible-urban-shelters\/\">collapsible shelters for urban nomads<\/a> (or campers).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Collapsible-urban-shelters-1-1-e1376030485996.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2621\" alt=\"Collapsible-urban-shelters-1-1\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Collapsible-urban-shelters-1-1-600x298.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are Canadians ready to repurpose our urban fixtures to live the nomadic lifestyle?<\/p>\n<p><em>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/popupcity.net\/interventions\/belgian-artist-transforms-billboards-into-houses-for-urban-nomads\/\">Pop-Up City<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Urban Planet is a roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Canadian cities, mammoth-like, urban advertising billboards are a common fixture. However, they are as well in Belgium. 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