Intentional Community: Architecture Can Form Community for Vanlifers
Abstract
What is the potential of community-based infrastructure for vanlifers? Vanlife
is an ever-growing movement across North America and the rest of the world.
Driven by high costs of living, mundane desk jobs, poor quality of life, and
the urge to be free, thousands of people are packing up their houses and
apartments and moving into self-converted full-size cargo vans. Vanlifers tend
to gravitate towards each other, creating a community on the road. In the
vans there is little space for necessities such as toilets, bathing facilities, room to
workout, and space to do work. This article works to use research on intentional
communities to design and create a network of vanlife communities across the
country.