R and D

In trying to develop the right balance between architecture and what might be termed science fiction, I went back to the library and did some more research. The idea of vehicle as clothing as house, or home, has many precedents: particularly in the 1960's and 70's. Many are from the Archigram.

I can only imagine that the times then were infused with a then strange new combination of both individualism and collectivism, in the western world at least, that these mobile, yet possibly permanent, structures came to manifest for a brief moment in time.

Technology, nature, and the human condition, it seems, were not to be made exclusive -- and the resultant forms demonstrate an interconnectedness that I believe will be a driving element in my project as well. I too enjoy the concept of using technology in a productive way to allow for self-sustaining locomotion and habitability, but I want to steer away from any 'magic bullets' like an overdependance on solar power -- or batteries the size of molecules, and so on.

My research is therefore more rooted in mechanical systems that are legible and, aside from an increased performative measure with regard to the material properties themselves, quite possibly buildable at any point in time.