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Old 10-31-2021, 04:43 PM   #732 (permalink)
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The solution was presaged by Archigram in the 1962:
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The Cushicle and Suitaloon - CUSHICLE AND SUITALOON
https://cushicleandsuitaloone3.wordpress.com › 2016 › 12 › 11 › the-cushicle-and-suitaloon
The Cushicle and Suitaloon are a pair of conceptual designs made by Michael Webb and published in the Archigram magazine in the 1960's. The Cushicle is an invention that enables a person to carry with them all the essentials of living - a self sustaining nomadic unit.

Cushicle and Suitaloon - Hidden Architecture
hiddenarchitecture.net › cushicle-and-suitaloon
Cushicle and Suitaloon. 1967. Architect: Michael Webb | Archigram. During the sixties, the architecture of Archigram produced a revolution within the radical and utopian proposals that started to appear after the Second World War. This group of architects were deeply influenced by the Pop Art, the Science Fiction comics and the new technology ...

Future House(s):Genealogy: Suitaloon
https://future-house-genealogy.blogspot.com › p › suitaloon.html
Suitaloon is a speculative design for a personal, individual and portable dwelling unit which may be 'worn' for transport and unpacked for occupation. Each suit has a plug serving functions similar to a key. This plug allows one to connect to another Suitaloon or leave own house or pack to be collected upon return.
Not impressed with Vimeo as a venue, but the do have a video vimeo.com/231666060 that from 0:38 to 0:59 has a clear exposition of the suitaloon/cushicle concept. What follows is materials research on conformal structures. Likely more interesting to me than you.


http://hiddenarchitecture.net/cushicle-and-suitaloon/

edit: Took a while to find any documentation on their Electric Garden concept:


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Such a conflation of rural and urban typologies is intended as a gently surreal gesture obviously, one made more so by the presence of people tapping away on their ipads under the building's chunky timber awning. There are deliberate echoes too of Archigram and, in particular, David Green’s dream of architecture as a kind of bucolic, high-tech paradise, a networked countryside of hidden data cables and robot gardeners.
http://fantasticjournal.blogspot.com...1_archive.html

Fake logs with power, Ethernet and Wi-fi.
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