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Temporary Architecture: Innovation, Testing-Ground and Entertainment

Andreea Cutieru — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 04:00:00 +0000

Beyond "experience tourism" and light entertainment, temporary architecture is a fertile ground for testing ideas, examining places, popularizing new concepts and technologies. Taking a wide array of forms, from disaster relief projects and utilitarian structures to design experiments, architectural statements and playful installations, transient structures showcase alternative visions for the built environment, opening up new possibilities and questioning established norms. As temporary architecture now seems at odds with sustainability imperatives, the following discusses the value of temporary architecture as a vehicle of experimentation, advancing design and engaging communities.

Plastique Fantastique Wrap Inflatable Intervention around Historic Sculpture for Helsinki Design Week

Patrick Lynch — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:00:00 +0000

German collective Plastique Fantastique have created “superKOLMEMEN,” an inflatable structure encircling a historic sculpture in Three Smiths Square (Kolmen sepän aukio) in downtown Helsinki for Helsinki Design Week. Throughout the event, the installation was used as a space for lectures, performances and workshops, as well as a casual gathering place.

The Inflatable Architecture of Plastique Fantastique

Rory Stott — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 12:30:00 +0000

Plastique Fantastique's pneumatic structures were originally conceived in 1999 through necessity: "The fact that we used plastic was just due to the fact that we had no money," explains the firm's founder Marco Canevacci. "So, plastic was just the cheapest material we could imagine, and you can join parts very easily and you can create very simple architectures. By using a hot air blower, those architectures become warm places to stay." By using warm air to inflate the structures, their office became a landscape of heated pods in an otherwise cold space. However, through their continued experiments over almost two decades, Plastique Fantastique's pneumatic interventions have now come to make the case for an ephemeral, temporary, and whimsical architecture. Their work now continues a lineage started by the experimental utopian group Haus-Rucker-Co, whose own pneumatic structures of the 1960s were disposable, free-wheeling creations which both literally and metaphorically played with the boundaries of a world they saw as staid, rigid, and dull.

Between the Kaleidoscopic Present and the Uncertain Future: A Case for Temporary Architecture

Shumi Bose — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 04:00:00 +0000

Temporary architecture is often misrepresented as a flimsy trend or photo-ready quick fix: easy, entertaining and often, mistakenly, cheap. This is Temporary concerns itself with a group of young, emerging, socially minded group of architects and designers who are taking the city back into their own hands and creating experimental sites for interaction and engagement. These architects, collectives, students and artists are designing transient structures, situations and events that invest and embed themselves in a community, public space or set of ideas.

At 180 Creative Camp, "Domesticity" Brings Living Space Out Into the Public

Patrick Lynch — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 08:00:00 +0000

After being announced as the winners of the 180 Creative Camp Open Call for Urban Interventions, earlier this year the Colombian team of María Mazzanti and Martin Ramirez realized their design for the city center of Abrantes, Portugal. The project, entitled “Domesticity,” reached out to residents of Abrantes for unused furniture, which the designers refurbished, repainted, and reused to create a shared outdoor living space where people could interact. The designers arranged the furniture pieces to encourage writing and drawing, and built a mailbox to house conversation topics.

180 Creative Camp 2015

Rene Submissions — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 21:00:00 +0000

From July 5th to 12th 180 Creative Camp will invade the center of Portugal, bringing to Abrantes unique creative collaborations between several celebrated national and international artists in areas like street art, video, design, music and architecture.

VIDEO: I LIKE Transparent

Becky Quintal — Tue, 06 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

ArchDaily has teamed up with Portugal's Canal 180 to bring you their series I LIKE. Check out episode 10, I LIKE Transparent, which features one of our most popular projects (and Building of the Year Winner), Gijs Van Vaerenbergh's Reading Between the Lines. You'll also see Heatherwick Studio's Bleigiessen, Plastique Fantastique's FLIPPAT and Numen/For Use's Tape.

Plastique Fantastique Installations

Karen Cilento — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:00:24 +0000

Based in Berlin, Plastique Fantastique experiments with public architectural works to create unique spatial experiences right in the middle of a city. These giant plastic bubble installations which take on different shapes in different cities, immediately snatch people’s attention and create a temporary focal point in the city centers.