Mobility and humain being

As I want to be an architect and I think the most important thing is the people who will inhabit the place, that's why I made a (rapid) research about the nomadic existences, the populations who need to move, most of the time to survive.

During the old times, the human existence was based on our capacity for movement and adaptability, to hunt, find food, in a word to survive. Every population found a way to be adapted to their environment, every time they are using local materials to build their home and find a way to design something light weight, easy to dismantle and to carry.

With these populations the notion of home is very different of our sedentary culture. Place making is a subjective sensation, in certain culture it's more flexible and ephemeral than in our.

For example in japanese culture it is an act of binding a place, encercling trees, rocks. And the japanese house is modular place, because one room can be a social space, private retreat or a sleeping place, furnitures are moved to change the meaning of the space.

In the Aboriginal australian culture, a place can be defined by travelling along a route that has been recounted in a story, the act of making the home is along a way.

The occidental culture is in opposition of the mobility,in the modern life we used to be static, standardized, working and living in static. When we are travelling, we are moving from a place as a point of reference, we see the world from where were are belonging.


But mobility is the capacity to accommodate change, and in the present society it is also economic effiency, substainbility performances, accessibility.


Now technological, social, and economics changes can lead to a new form of nomadic existence based on global market, world wide web and cheap, fast transportation.




Flexible architecture is not a new phenomenon, but a form of buildings that evolved alongside human being 's developping creative skills.

An old gypsy wagon

Airstream Clipper, designed in 1931 and manufactured at Airstream's first Californian plant in 1932

Silver Cloud Model Airstream, 1936

The improvement of cars and the possibility to be on holidays had been increased the design of touring boxes

Appearance of mobile homes