Planning and Designing the Absent City

This book concerns the study of open-air accommodation facilities. The market evolutions allow us to look at these structures as temporary settlements characterised by a low-density dwelling and a close connection with natural elements and the landscape.

Autorentext

Luca Trabattoni is Associate Professor at the Opole University of Technology (Poland), belonging to the Department of Architecture and Planning since 2018, where he teaches Landscape and Interior Design. He is an on contract professor for the courses of Architectural Composition at the Polytechnic of Milan and at the University of Pavia, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture and for the course of Materials Technology at the NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts) in Milan. He is a freelancer and co- founder of ARCò architecture and cooperation that studies the approach to emergency architecture in relation to the theme of sustainability, realising building all over the world. ARCò's work has been published in various international journals and has received numerous awards. He collaborates with the AUDE research laboratory of the University of Pavia, cocoordinating the research project on Mobile Homes. He founded Camp Design and Architecture to develop the theme of landscape design for campsites.

Inhalt

List of figures

Introduction: Cultural and Statistical Background of the Temporary City of Tourism

· People

· Questions

· Environment

· Maxi-Caravan

· Temporariness

Prologue: An Introduction to Temporary Settlements Habitat and Living Landscape (Quick Time)

· Burning Man festival

· Kumbh Mela festival

· Quick Time

Campsite Experience: or the Dream of Walden Full Option (Medium Time)

· ACT 01 - Historical Background

Travelling in Nature

Veichles

Holiday Camp

Free TIme

Epilogue

· ACT 02 - Pioneers of open-air hospitality

Costa smeralda

Club Med

Touring Club Italiano

· ACT 03 - Pioneers of architectural solutions

GATPAC- Ciutat de Repos y Vacances

Giò Ponti, Bernard Rodowsfy - Albergo San Michele

Albert Frey - Desert Hill Hotel

Le Corbusier - Unitè de Camping

Edoardo Gellner, Carlo Scarpa - Villaggio ENI Borca di Cadore

Carlo Scarpa - camping Fusina

Kisho Kurokawa - Villaggio vacanze Capsule

Luigi Snozzi - Villaggio turistico in Sardegna

· ACT 04 - Landscape's Laws and order. Normative Cultural definitions of landscape

· ACT 05 - Outdoor facilities actual definition

Maxi-Caravan Landscape

The settlement system (Graphic results of the "Mobile Home "research coordinated with AUDe laboratory of the University of Pavia_online)

Strategies of camping development

Clustering and Landscape Construction

· ACT 06 - Medium Time

Epilogue: The Experience of Refugee Camp as Long Temporary Settlements (Long Time)

· Definition and organization

· Who live in the camp?

KISEDP

Nakivale

Sahwari camps

· Possible Development

Strategies

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index