PORTABLE ARCHITECTURE Design and Technology

Description

This book discusses the forerunners, present context, and technology of portable architecture. It documents numerous international examples, organized by areas of application, and offers a broad array of suggestions for practical design.

CONTENTS

Exhibition and Commerce

• Renzo Piano Building Workshop: IBM Traveling Pavilion
• James Law Cybertecture: Pacific Century Cyberworks Connect Kiosk Shops
• LOT-EK: DIM Mobile Retail Unit
• LOT-EK: Uniqlo Pop-Up Store
• Shigeru Ban: Japan Pavilion
• Shigeru Ban: Nomadic Museum
• FTL Design Engineering Studio: Dyson Mobile Exhibition Pavilion
• Tectoniks Ltd.: Spirit of Dubai Building
• Inflate: Big M
• Inflate: Unipart Structure
• Inflate: Smirnoff Cube
• Festo: Airtecture Air Hall
• Festo: Airquarium

Entertainment

• Rudi Enos: Valhalla
• Toutenkamion: Screen Machine 2
• AMP Arquitectos/Wilk Salinas: Bathing Ship
• FTL Design Engineering Studio: Harley Davidson Machine Tent
• Mark Fisher: U2 Vertigo Tour Stage Set
• Mark Fisher: The Rolling Stones Bigger Bang Tour Stage Set
• Mark Fisher: Superbowl Half-Time Shows

Shelter and Residential

• Office of Mobile Design: Portable House
• Richard Horden: micro-compact home
• Paul Burchill and Hervé Delaby: Caravan of the Future
• LOT-EK: Mobile Dwelling Unit

Arts and Education

• Gruber + Popp Architekten: Mobile Museums
• Gollifer Langston Architects: Classroom of the Future
• Theo Jansen: Animarus Rhinocerus Transport
• Tadao Ando Architect and Associates: Karaza Theatre

Military and Expedition

• NASA: ISS TransHAB
• Faber Maunsell: Halley VI
• Weatherhaven: BHP Geological Survey Camp

160 pages, color & b&w ills / 23 x 30 cm / English