It’s great to be able to write about a project like this. I wish there were more of them.
Paul Villinski turned a salvaged FEMA-style trailer into a solar-powererd, mobile artist’s studio. According to Paul, the “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.”
This innovative living space project, known as Emergency Response Studio, is powered completely by a 1.6 kilowatt photo-voltaic solar system that features nine large solar panels tilting upward from the roof to face the sun. More power is provided by a micro-wind turbine turning …read more

I featured Paul Villinski here a few months ago as one of our junk artists in Things You’d Never Imagine From Beer Cans, Gloves and Chairs.
These days Paul is concentrating on building an Emergency Response Studio.
He’s turning a broken-down Gulfstream travel trailer into a “visually engaging, sustainably built, solar- and wind-powered, mobile artist’s studio.” It’s designed for use in emergency settings (like after hurricanes), and will provide off-grid space for displaced or visiting artists.
From Paul’s site:
“My experience of post-Katrina New Orleans made apparent the need for such a mobile structure to house displaced artists or enable visiting visual …read more