BARK is a British Columbia registered non-profit collective of designers + businesses committed to raising the profile of Canadian design and ingenuity.

The All Terrain Cabin (ATC) was dreamed up by BARK to showcase Canadian design on international design forums, consumer home and interior design shows, environmental conferences, and special events, as well as more casual visits to small towns, open spaces, and the downtown cores of major urban centres.

For that purpose, they designed a small home, a cabin, using the standard ISO shipping container as the basis for the structure and outfitting it totally with Canadian Design and Technology. The result is as smart as it is efficient, suitable for a family of four and a pet to live off the grid in comfort and contemporary style. It travels by train, truck, ship, airplane or helicopter, folded up and indistinguishable from any ordinary shipping container. Once it arrives, it unfolds rapidly to 480sf of self-contained, sophisticated living space with all the comforts of home.

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