ABSTRACT

The latest volume in this popular series of books which explores the theoretical basis for temporary and transportable structures where permanence is either not possible or desirable. The book provides insight into the wide range of uses of these structures, the varied forms they take and the concerns and ideas for future development, focusing on portability, adaptability, sustainability of the built environment, and technical innovations. A wide range of designed solutions identify and define contemporary directions in design theory and practice.

With international examples throughout, this book will be of interest and value to all those involved in the areas of building design, building component manufacture and urban design.

chapter |11 pages

The Figure of the Spiral in Marcel Duchamp and Frederick Kiesler

Helmut Klassen York University and Ryerson University

chapter 10|9 pages

,000 Songs in Your Pocket: The iPod® as a Transportable Environment

Prasad Boradkar Arizona State University

chapter |8 pages

Carried Away! The Spatial Pleasure of Transportability

Patricia Pringle Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

chapter |10 pages

Design Transformation in Architecture and Design

Chuck Hoberman Hoberman Designs Inc.

chapter |6 pages

Traces: The Architecture of Remembering

Sarah Bonnemaison Dalhousie University

chapter |6 pages

Pedestrian Clip-on Footbridge: Making Use of Temporary City Space

Andrew Furman Ryerson University

chapter |14 pages

Material Innovations: Transparent, Lightweight, and Malleable

Filiz Klassen Ryerson University

chapter |13 pages

Transformable and Transportable Architecture with Scissor Structures

Carolina Rodriguez and John Chilton University of Nottingham and University of Lincoln

chapter |14 pages

A Very Rapid Deployable Canopy System

Neil Burford and Christoph Gengnagel University of Dundee and Technical University of Munich

chapter |10 pages

Biological Structures and Deployable Architectural Structures

Maziar Asefi University of Liverpool

chapter |3 pages

Projects LOT-EK, Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano

Robert Kronenburg University of Liverpool

chapter |4 pages

Office of Mobile Design, Jennifer Siegal (Los Angeles, USA)

Robert Kronenburg University of Liverpool

chapter |2 pages

Biomimesis in Architecture: Inspiration for the Next Generation of Portable Buildings

Semra Arslan and Arzu Gonenç Sorguc Middle East Technical University

chapter |2 pages

Dockable Dwelling

Matias Creimer OTIS College of Art and Design

chapter |1 pages

Crysalis: A Portable Personal Shelter

Jessica Davies, Yvonne Cheng, Johanna Doukler, and Tamsin Ford Ryerson University

chapter i|2 pages

i-home: Smart Student Living

Lydia Haack Technical University of Munich

chapter |2 pages

Portable Performance Space

George King University of Liverpool

chapter |3 pages

Trajectory of the Junks

Janet McGaw University of Melbourne

chapter |2 pages

Past Tents: A Scenographic Experiment

Kaija Vogel Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design

chapter |6 pages

Biographies

chapter |5 pages

Selected Bibliography