World’s coolest campervan

An American student has spent £6,000 converting a school bus into the world’s coolest campervan.

Hank Butitta wanted to work at full scale for the final project of his Architecture masters at the University of Minnesota, but unable to fund the building of a conventional home he bought the bus and converted it into a tiny living space.The American school bus cost the equivalent of £2,000 and needed another £4,000 spent on improvements – a modest budget that has produced an incredibly versatile living space.

Hank aimed to demonstrate what was possible converting an existing vehicle into a campervan on a modest budget. He also wanted to make a case for full-scale iteration in architectural education: “There are too many architecture students who don’t understand basic physical limitations of materials or how they can be joined. This project was a way to show how building a small structure with simple detailing can be more valuable than drawing a complex project that is theoretical and poorly understood. I think we need more making in architecture”, Hank writes on his blog.

World’s coolest campervan

See more of the bus on Hank’s excellent blog.

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