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How to Build an Office on Wheels: Dispatches from Coroflot’s Mobile Office Design/Build Project

It’s 2012. Laurence Sarrazin and Eric Ludlum (Core77’s Editorial Director) have dreams of finishing a “tiny house"—a 280 sq. foot home for a family of four. They’ve run through prototypes and workshops, designed a structure and bracket system, and a 28’ x 10’ trailer is custom built by MS Metal Works in Mollalla, OR.

Then the fall rains came, and the tiny house hopeful was not rolled out, but rolled in, covered in a tarp, and let down for a little trailer sleep. And as project fate would have it, it would not wake until another Eric/Laurence project matched up, and Core77 and Coroflot growth demanded the trailer’s proposed intentions be reimagined.

Last year, having sold the land that was Eric’s childhood home, Laurence and Eric had the opportunity to fell the second-growth trees from that plot. They seized the chance to repurpose the Douglass Fir’s, the very same ones Eric climbed in his wee-days in Tigard, OR (then an unincorporated part of Washington County), and the resulting lumber is the 5000 board feet that now sit in our garage—destined to be built-in furniture, shelving and flooring of the newest addition to the Coroflot office. Just as Hand-Eye was born out of Core77, so was Coroflot, which, as we know, has come to be one of the most fruitful web hubs for design opportunities and portfolios.

So with fresh lumber, a trailer frame, and a need for more office space, Coroflot’s new office takes up residence in the garage of it’s other sister: us!—Hand-Eye Supply.

Follow along here, on the HES blog, and stop by Hand-Eye’s Design Week Portland Open House this Thursday, April 21 from 4-7 pm to see the in-process project and talk about the build. We’ll surely have a Ft. George brew in hand.

Written by Jeff Rutherford, originally for HES.

http://www.core77.com/posts/51986/How-to-Build-an-Office-on-Wheels-Dispatches-from-Coroflots-Mobile-Office-DesignBuild-Project