PanGo-what?!?!
PanGoPods are off-grid eco-friendly mobile homes. They are bigger than a caravan but smaller than a Park Home. This sort of housing is common in the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, where they are called Tiny Homes.
We drew inspiration from the ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), an animal that can roll up into a defensive ball, protected by keratin scales. Beyond this remarkable defensive ploy, pangolins are also mobile and can go just about anywhere. Hence … the pangolin pod, the go-anywhere pod, the PanGoPod.
Our PanGoPods detach from their trailers: they can be kept on the trailer or ‘planted’ on site and removed again. A PanGoPod plus trailer weighs 3500 kg and can be towed by a large 4×4. PanGoPods run off of solar power, using water from rainwater harvesting tanks, and a water-free composting loo.
Pangopods have a ground floor of roughly 16 m2 and two mezzanine lofts, each of just over 4 m2, for a total area of nearly 25 m2. The lofts can each take two single mattresses or a king-size mattress. A separate bathroom provides privacy for a shower, a composting loo, a hand basin, a wardrobe, and a washing machine. The open-plan ground floor contains a fully-functional kitchen, a sleeper couch, and a dining nook.
We hope that after diving a bit deeper into the information here, you’ll be as excited as we are about this great new, proudly South African product.
