04436nam 2200673Ia 450 991081126340332120200520144314.01-135-80578-41-135-80579-21-282-77749-197866127774930-203-02385-410.4324/9780203023853(CKB)1000000000255736(EBL)165454(OCoLC)560058349(SSID)ssj0000261781(PQKBManifestationID)11217472(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261781(PQKBWorkID)10257972(PQKB)10041124(MiAaPQ)EBC165454(Au-PeEL)EBL165454(CaPaEBR)ebr10054887(CaONFJC)MIL277749(EXLCZ)99100000000025573619981117d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTransportable environments theory, context, design, and technology : papers from the International Conference on Portable Architecture, London, 1997 /edited by Robert Kronenburg1st ed.London ;New York E & Fn Spon19981 online resource (vii, 215 pages) illustrations"Simultaneously published in ... Canada."1-138-40909-X 0-419-24250-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-213) and index.Cover; Transportable Environments: Theory, Context, Design and Technology; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Theory; Body World and Time: Meaningfulness in Portability; Following the Trace-Spirits in the Landscape; Constructing The Ephemeral: The Notions of Binding and Portability in Japanese Architecture; The Suitcase: (Postcards and Paraphernalia) Redefining the Space of Tourism and Travel; Context; From Learned Pigs to the Burning Man: Itinerant Amusement in AmericaFuller's DDU project (1941-44) Instrument, Art or Architecture?: (Heroic design versus ad hoc pragmatism); Gimme Shelter: Short-term Solutions for a Long-term Problem: Temporary Housing for No-Income and Low-Income People; Kyoto Machiya: Ideas of Spatial Layering, Ritual Disclosure, and Portability in the Form of Japanese Traditional City Dwelling; Shelter not Homes - Appropriate Emergency Relief; Design; Micro Architecture in Education; The Principle and the Commercial Reality of Portable Architecture: A Manufacturer's ViewThe Service, Form and Function of Relocatable Structures: A Constructor's View; Softdwelling: A Programme for Living and Working; Standardisation in Portable Architecture; A Structure, a Village, an Exploration; Sustainable Portable Housing, Cave Cay, Bahamas; Wearable Environments; Whaur Extremes Meet - The Story of a Line; Technology; The Development of a Lightweight Military Shelter; An Expandable and Contractible House; Implementing Portable Architecture; Lightweight Prefabricated and Precast Construction for Remote Building Applications in AustraliaSteel-Frame Modular Building Comes of Age; Possibilities for the Development of Building with Pre-assembled Portable Components in the Developing World; Sustainable Transportable Classroom; Endword; List of Delegates; Selected Bibliography; IndexTransportable Environments explores aspects of the historical and theoretical basis for portable architecture and provides an insight into the wide range of functions that it is used for today, the varied forms that it takes and the concerns and ideas for its future development. Written by a team of international commentators, this volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of this specialist area and will be of interest to a wide range of professionals across the construction and design industries.Buildings, PortableCongressesBuildings, PrefabricatedCongressesBuildings, PortableBuildings, Prefabricated720Kronenburg Robert740927International Conference on Portable Architecture(1997 :London, England)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811263403321Transportable environments3988355UNINA