Model Kit Reimagined

I used a ’66 Chevy Suburban model kit to create this building with a trellis and solar panels – can you spot them?

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My grandpa grew up in the tenements of NYC. When he got home from WWII, he got a job as a radio tech and saved almost everything he made.

I was thinking about a story my dad shared with me. Every summer as a kid, his parents would drive him and his sisters to their lake house in Pennsylvania. Being the 60s, the kids would all lay down in the back of the station wagon and sleep. For him, their car was a big part of their family.

I wanted to create a home that honored my grandpa’s hard work and his ability to get so many various uses out of a single thing, and that focused on the car that brought them together as a family in many ways. I wanted the shell of the car to be viewed as a car but now worked into a window seat, a different space for sleeping and family gathering. I reimagined my dad’s family living in an environmentally conscious future, where they have a live trellis next to the front door and solar panels. In a world where everything gets a 2nd, 3rd, or 10th purpose, this house would take their beloved family car and integrate it into their home.