It’s true, this travel trailer has a rooftop swimming pool. For those RVers who refuse to swim in lakes or rivers or, heaven forbid, public pools, here’s the solution. We assume the pool would be emptied before heading down the road.
But wait, there’s more to the story.
This one-of-a-kind vehicle is the creation of French artist Benedetto Bufalino, who plays with the perception of everyday objects by altering their original function.
Here, below, another one of his “swimming pools.”
This travel trailer would be great for bringing your own personal swimming hole with you where you traveled, but it wouldn’t be very good for camping. As you can see from the short time-lapse video of its construction near the bottom of this article, the inside was basically gutted to create the pool.
Bufalino’s best-known projects include a sedan-turned-jacuzzi, a police car converted into a chicken coop and a cardboard faux-ferrari. Oh, yes, we can’t forget to mention his truly mobile phone, well, actually a mobile phone booth.
Now, here’s a time lapse video of the mobile swimming pool being created.
We originally posted this article in early 2019 (before the widespread usage of A.I.)
It says click to enlarge. It doesn’t.
Well, shoot! Thanks, Snayte. It worked last night. I just fixed it and it worked for me again. Let me know if it doesn’t work for you. Thanks for letting me know! 😀 —Diane at RVtravel.com
After clicking Snayte, expand it by the “reverse pinch” method…..smile.
Wow joke or not when RV manufacturers can’t even do a good job right now of keeping rain water out of leaking through our brand new RV’s I can’t even begin to image the nightmares with this idea coming to fruition….just don’t let THOR get their hands on this for a future design LOL ??
I think they are over the GVWR don’t you?
Just guessing on the dimensions, the water alone would exceed 10 tons. That might just crush the roof of most rv’s
I’m picturing a rather short and quick water slide. 😀 —Diane at RVtravel.com
The devil is in the details. Lets say 6′ wide by 14 feet long by 3 feet deep is 252 cubic feet, which is 1,885 gallons, and that weighs 14,000 pounds. Notice the 2′ by 2′ pads under each of four jackstands? The force on each jackstand is about 3,500 pounds, about the same as an individual wheel weight on a typical 34′ Class A coach. And lets add about 750 pounds per jackstand for the trailer weight itself. Even those big pads are sinking into the grass. If you can pump 6 gallons per minute to that 10′ head, then it will take you a bit more than 5 hours to fill that pool. That sure isn’t river water that they put in that pool, so does the trailer have on-board filtration? Hmm, it would be a great trailer fire extinguisher.
Watch out for the weight police!
LOL
I’m sorry to have to say this but that looks like a millennial design, it looks like it would be nice with very little thought as to the consequences. Just the fact that it’s on a single axle trailer is a dead giveaway as to the intelligence level of the “artist”. At least use common sense, oops that’s something they don’t have, and use a platform big enough to support it.
I just noticed the door on the trailer isn’t open. Unusual. I’m thinking this isn’t even a real trailer. It’s ‘parts’ on a sturdy framework of some sort designed to support the wading pool and LOOK like a trailer. Like everyone else mentions, water weighs too much to simply sit on a flimsy RV rooftop. Just sayin’. And look at that tow vehicle. Really?
I think you missed the “joke”…
You might just be right, Sink . . .
I read the article, yet I couldn’t resist calculating the weight of the water, estimating a minimum of 1000 gallons at 8 pounds per gallon plus the trailer! Ha
it just begs the question, why?
Thank you for the recycled article, Chuck. I recall the initial picture, so I must have foregone the YouTube video. This trailer swimming pool could be towed behind an RV, empty of water of course. I do wonder how the campground host(s)/owner would react to filling the pool and later emptying it? Seems a large volume of water would be required. Have a great day and safe travels!