Mobile architecture

Agrosocial infrastructure to grow crops of voice-equipped citizens By ANDRÉS JAQUE ARCHITECTS & THE OFFICE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION ESCARAVOX are assemblages of discarded rural infrastructures, reprogrammed as voice-giving-publicdevice. The aim of this project is to endow Matadero Madrid, former slaughterhouse of the city and now an institution self defined as “public space for contemporary culture, with views on the river”, with the necessary material devices and institutional protocols to prompt a connection between the aforementioned models of intervention in the cultural field. To achieve this, the scheme proposes equipping the open spaces of the old abattoir with varied types of large-span mobile structures with sound amplifying... More

cocobello is a movable container module, which can be build up very fast and flexible. It can be used as a showroom, an office, a press box, etc. It deploys and retracts on its own. So if it is positioned one time, it is directly applicable. Have you ever thought about sending your showroom around? The first floor is glazed on both sides, so it is visible further on. At the touch of a button your products can be shown at any place. The floor is partially glazed and the LED displays promote the image of your products. At night the showroom change into a huge visible lightbox. The design of cocobello could be devotail with the cooparate design of your company. Whereever you want to go, take your cocobello with you. During one hour... More

Concept N.C.S, a NPO which holds permanent housing system, and Trailer House Association has teamed up together to carry out a project to provide housing for disaster victims. 1. Provides fast, cost effective, and stylish houses which lasts for more than 30 years 2. Construction method which could be easily dismantled, set up, extended, and reformed 3. Team structure which provides concepts, people, and materials Think the Tohoku We will never forget Mar. 11th, 2011 as Japanese and as an architect. I visited the disaster site with a diesel car for 3 days from April 3rd to 5th, which was 3 weeks after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. At my first glance of inconceivable damaged buildings and land, I couldn’t even... More

The project reveals a conceptual vision for a new public library, which would be housed in a waste tram at the “Otets Paisiy” Street in the town of Plovdiv. This is the exact street where the first trolleybus was passing through 55 years ago. The street is “cut” because of urbanization reasons, but has preserved itself as a parallel and alternative city culture, collateral to the main pedestrian and touring zone in the city. The project offers a new life for a small city square, which has lost its main function through the years. During the past years a number of foundations turn serious attention to this bohemian part of the town’s past and present. They initiated projects, exhibitions and festivals. This library will fill in to some exten... More

StudioInvisible (Wassim Melki, Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot) envisioned this vertically mobile unit for their working spaces. Located in the Hills of Baabdath, Lebanon, the terrain is vastly surrounded by natural elements, including a 400 years old Oak tree, as well as a couple of old demolished farming houses. (shelled during the lebanese civil war) In order to be respectful to the context, and to be esthetically environment-friendly, the architectʼs concept is to create a structure that is only visible when functioning, while it completely disappears when not in use. Architect Wassim Melki Explains : “ The idea of having my studio in this area is almost years old now, and I have designed tens of options for it, in vain, as t... More

Hangar Design Group signed three new homes on wheels projects. Sunset, Moonriver and Coral are real prefab micro homes with wheels that combine a sophisticated aesthetic code with the attention to environmental impact. The projects, in fact, are certified Class A ClimateHouse according to criteria of absolute environmental compatibility in terms of recycling, reuse and reversibility. One of them, Sunset, won the recent Compasso d'Oro Award 2011 for the category "Design for the environment". The award comes thirty years after foundation of the creative studio and for an innovative project of a house on wheels combining functionality, aestethics and sustainability, as nowadays is required to every design project. More