Title & Author:

Transportable environments 3 / edited by Robert Kronenburg ; co-edited by Filiz Klassen.

Publication:

London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2006.

Description:

ix, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-218) and index.
Polyphilo's thresholds : alternatives for nomadic dwelling / Alberto Perez-Gomez -- The figure of the spiral in Marcel Duchamp and Frederick Kiesler / Helmut Klassen -- 10,000 songs in your pocket : the iPod as a transportable environment / Prasad Boradkar -- Oil and water : offshore architecture / Justin Beal -- A generation of the move : the emancipatory function of architecture in the radical avant-garde 1960-1972 / Renata Hejduk -- Carried away! : the spatial pleasure of transportability / Patricia Pringle -- Ephemeral landscape, portable dwelling : the ice fishing house and the fish house community / Martha Abbott -- Transformation in architecture and design / Chuck Hoberman -- Traces : the architecture of remembering / Sarah Bonnemaison -- Plastic and bamboo : tailor-made tent design / Marcin W. Padlewski -- Pedestrian clip-on footbridge : making use of temporary city space / Andrew Furman -- Mobility between heaven and Earth / Meindert Versteeg -- Mobile architecture and pre-manufactured buildings : two case studies / Dean Goodman -- Transportable environments : technological innovation and the response to change / Robert Kronenburg -- Material innovations : transparent, lightweight, and malleable / Filiz Klassen -- Mobilized manufacturing : the on-site construction of freeform composite shells / Jordan Brandt and Alejandro Ogata -- Transformable and transportable architecture with scissor structures / Carolina Rodriguez and John Chilton -- A very rapid deployable canopy system / Neil Bulford and Christoph Gengnagel -- Biological structures and deployable architectural structures / Mazlar Asefi -- LOT-EK, Ada Toila and Glueseppe Lignano / Robert Kronenburg -- Office of mobile design, Jennifer Siegal / Robert Kronenburg -- Biomimesis in architecture : inspiration for the next generation of portable buildings / Semra Arslan and Arzu Gonenc Sorguc -- Dockable dwelling / Matias Creimar -- Crysalis : a portable personal shelter / Jessica Davies, Yvonne Cheng, Johanna Doukler and Tamsin Ford -- In-ter-tex-ture : weaving kinetic structures / Xenia F. Diente and Elise Knudson -- l-home : smart student living / Lydia Haack -- Portable performance space / George King -- Mobile clinic : a transportable treatment unit for sub-Saharan Africa / Plet Mazereeuw -- Trajectory of the junks / Janet McGaw -- Past tents : a scenographic experiment / Kalja Vogel.
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Summary:

An overview of structures designed to be mobile, their uses, and the principles involved in their design including a consideration of the wide range of applications in which they can be found.

Resources:
Table of contents
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0415343771 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415343770 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203639689
0203639685

Subject:

Buildings, Portable.
Constructions transportables.
Constructions provisoires.
Structures flexibles.
portable buildings.
nonrigid structures.
Transportable environments

Added entries:

Kronenburg, Robert.
Klassen, Filiz, 1965-

Transportable environments three

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243247
Call No.: BIB 173029
Status: Available