TRANSIENT

ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURE STUDIO III

BY: M.NUZAIR MUMTAZ
FA19-BAR-014
15-9-21
WHAT IS TRANSIENT
ARCHITECTURE

• PART OF ARCHITECTURE OFTEN RELATED TO TEMPRORARY

STRUCTURES
• SINCE LIVES ON THE TERM TEMPRORARY, THEREFORE, THE
STYLE IS SHORTLIVED
• WE CAN OFTEN DESCRIBE IT TO BE COLLAPSIBLE,
DISMANTABLE, MOVABLE, FOLDABLE.

ITS SIGNIFICANCE

THE BASIC PURPOSE OF THIS

ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT
ENDORSES THE USER TO
FACTORS THAT LEAD TO TEMPRORARY
CREATE A SOCIAL
INTERACTION EXPERIENCE ARCHITECTURE
WITH THE HELP OF
ARCHITECTURAL SPACES THAT • SELECTION OF MATERIALS i.e. THE WEIGHT OF
MAY INCLUDE THE MATERIALS(OFTEN LIGHTWEIGHT
WALKTHROUGH, PAVILIONS, MATERIALS PREFERRED).
PERSONAL, PUBLIC SPACES OR • TIME PERIOD FOR CONSTRUCTING A SPACE OR
AN EXHIBITION OR FESTIVAL. AN ARCHITECTURE EXPERIENCE IS PRETTY
MUCH SHORT.
• SCALE AND DIMENSIONS ARE SMALL SCALED AS
PERMANENT BUILDINGS TEND TO BUILT ON A
GRAND SCALE.
• CAN BE MOVED FROM ITS POSITION THUS,
THERE IS NO USE OF USINGA STRONGER
FOUNDATION.
• THE INSTALLATION COST AND MATERIAL COST IS
CHEAPER COMPARED TO PERMANENT
ARCHITECTURE STYLE
EXAMPLES OF TRANSIENT ARCHITECTURE
THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLES ARE MOVEMENTS AND
ARCHITECTURE STYLES THAT MAYBE WERE IN THE
PAST AND ALSO STILL EXIST TO DATE.
AN ARCHITECTURE GROUP FROM
THE 1960S NAMED ARCHIGRAM
URBAN NOMAD MOVEMENT AND POP UP ARCHITECTURE: created a hypothetical concept of
a fantasy city on a larger scale that
• WHAT THESE MOVEMENTS AND ARCHITECTURE STYLE PROPOSE AN can move through mega
IDEAL IDEA OF SUSTAINABILITY IS THE FACT OF ITS SMALL SIZE, machinery which were inspired
• LIGHTWEIGHT, by advancing technology of that
• CHEAPER COSTLY USAGE OF MATERIALS FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE era to remove the concept of a
SPACE generic permanent city. The ideas
• MOBILE,EASY TO USE QUALITY THAT IT POSSESESS. were generated but only on paper.

Interior and plan

axonometric sketch
of the capsules like
Plug-in city drawings homes.
made

Sketches made for the walking city that shows the moving
qualities of the structure along with its grand scale through the
dimensions shown in sketch
PARASITIC ARCHITECTURE:

DERIVED FROM THE WORD PARASITE DUE TO THE FACT A

PARASITE FEEDS ON ITS HOST THUS THIS STYLE INVOLVES A
SMALL EXTENSION TO A LARGER BUILDING

• PARASITIC ARCHITECTURE helped

eliminate the high rents issues faced
by residential apartments
• thus utilizing the space by not
creating a congestion.
• reducing costs of purchasing building
sites.

DANIEL LIBESKIND
JEWISH MUSEUM

APARTMENTS IN
FRANCE IN PARASITIC
ARCHITECTURE
ROOFTOPS

SOME IDEAS ILLUSTRATIONS CREATED

GRAPHICALLY OR BY HAND THAT
GIVES AN IDEA ABOUT PARASITIC
ARCHITECTURE FROM BEHANCE
FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD COACHELLA
THAT USE TRANSIENT
ARCHITECTURE

LOLLAPOOZA

FRANCIS KERE COLORFUL

TOWERS DURING COACHELLA
2019

• THESE ART INSTALLATIONS

WERE VITAL IN PROVIDING AN
AESTHETIC LOOK,
• PROVIDED SHELTER FOR THE
PEOPLE
• ALSO UTILIZED AS SITTING
SPACES
• USED FOR SOCIAL MEDIA
PUBLICITY DUE TO ITS USE OF
VIBRANT COLOURS.
FAMOUS PROJECTS THAT WERE INSPIRED BY
TRANSIENT ARCHITECTURE

TWO GREAT EXAMPLES OF MODERN DAY

ARCHITECTURE THAT ARE WIDELY RECOGNIZED
OVER THE WORLD WERE INSPIRED BY THE
ARCHIGRAM drawings by peter cook are
• FORUN ARTCENTER , NORMAN FOSTER THAT
HAS A MOVING FAÇADE.
• POMPIDOU CENTER BY RENZO PIANO AND
RICHARD ROGERS IN FRANCE.

FOSUN ART
CENTER,
SHANGHAI

POMPIDOU CENTER, FRANCE