This workshop explores the possibility of a mobile, self-contained building that is easy to transport, easy to deploy and wonderful to use. The ambition is to create a shelter that is environmentally sensitive, flexible, reusable and responsive to change, and that will be able to accommodate the individuality of the occupant but will also foster the creation of a community of like-minded individuals. Each participant will design and build their own personal minimal living unit based on their own experiences and desires. We will take special care of sustainability and ecological issues in creating our designs by investigating recycled and recyclable materials. We will then examine the potential for a community of these lightweight, low-impact constructions.
Our objective will be to produce a series of experimental yet functional full-size portable architectural objects that cross the boundaries between furniture, sculpture and architecture.
Robert Kronenburg (UK)
The architect Robert Kronenburg was born in England in 1954. Currently head of the School of Architecture at the University of Liverpool (UK), he has also taught in the USA, Europe, Japan and Malaysia. His main work is in the field of flexible and portable architecture as a designer, consultant and researcher. He curated the major exhibition Portable Architecture held at the Royal Institute of British Architects, the touring exhibition Spontaneous Construction and advised on the Vitra exhibition Living in Motion. His books include Houses in Motion, Portable Architecture and Flexible: Architecture that Responds to Change.
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