Thesis (Doctoral)--İzmir Institute of Technology,İzmir, 2004 / Keywords:Change, adaptability, responsive architecture, kinetic systems, kinematic. Includes bibliographical references (leaves. 86).

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:56:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GlauceLAA_TESE_Capa_ate_pag41.pdf: 802913 bytes, checksum: 5a9d6f5aaa583f77ffd556bd2dceaff2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-18 / The purpose of this research is to study the portable or reassemblable architectures, which, different from conventional architecture (whose designs are of permanent buildings), corresponds to the designing of spaces with temporary purposes. The focus of the study is the architectural design of spaces that are produced from building systems that can to be moved to different places (process of assembly / disassembly / reassembly) in order to identify the types of spaces generated and the processes used in their design / projecting. The aim is to investigate relationships between the initial project conceived based on a Reassemblable Construction System (RCS) and its application in the architectural design of professionals and students in order to contribute to the understanding of the specificities of this type of design activity. To this end it was developed the exploratory research based on multimedia methods, which includes: documentary analysis, technical visits, interviews, surveys, academic exercise and documentation by images. Although the study is not conclusive, the results indicate significant differences between the point of view of the RCS?s designers and its users (architects and architecture students) since the users demonstrated to have some difficulty to access the features provided for the first group, in particular the students. It is also demonstrated that the use of RCSs seems to change the appreciation / hierarchization of the conditions of project design, since, unlike what happens in traditional architectural design, the designers who use them seem to be more concerned with constructive issues, especially the structural elements (support and covering), instead of functionality, aesthetics and even physical characteristics of the site / O objeto de investiga??o desse estudo ? a arquitetura port?vel ou remont?vel, que, diferente da arquitetura convencional (feita para ser permanente), corresponde ? projeta??o de espa?os com fins tempor?rios. O foco do estudo ? o projeto arquitet?nico de espa?os que sejam produzidos a partir de sistemas construtivos que possam ser levados a v?rios s?tios (processo de montagem/desmontagem/remontagem), de modo a identificar os tipos de espa?os gerados e os processos utilizados em sua concep??o/projeta??o. Busca-se investigar rela??es entre o projeto inicial concebido a partir de um sistema construtivo remont?vel (SCR) e sua aplica??o na projeta??o arquitet?nica por profissionais e estudantes, a fim de contribuir com elementos que auxiliem a compreender as especificidades desse tipo de atividade projetual. Para tanto foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa explorat?ria com base em multim?todos, que abrangeu: an?lise documental, visitas t?cnicas, entrevistas, question?rios, exerc?cio acad?mico e documenta??o por imagens. Embora o estudo realizado n?o seja conclusivo, os resultados obtidos indicam haver diferen?as entre o ponto de vista dos projetistas do SCR e seus usu?rios (projetistas atuantes e em forma??o), pois os ?ltimos demonstram ter alguma dificuldade para acessar os recursos disponibilizados pelo primeiro grupo, em especial os estudantes. Tamb?m se evidencia que o uso de SCRs parece alterar a valoriza??o/hierarquiza??o dos condicionantes projetuais, uma vez que, diferentemente do que acontece em projetos arquitet?nicos tradicionais, os projetistas que os usam aparentam maior preocupa??o com as quest?es construtivas, sobretudo os elementos estruturais (apoios e cobertura), em detrimento de funcionalidade, est?tica e mesmo caracter?sticas f?sicas do local

The use of temporary, prefabricated buildings in Britain during the twentieth century arose from wartime need to provide better, and perhaps more importantly, portable shelter for troops and equipment. This thesis provides the first comprehensive list of hut designs for the First and Second World Wars. The full lists and descriptions of each hut are given in the appendices. These lists, 20 types for the First World War and 52 from the Second World War, show the huge range and scope of the huts used and is the major contribution of this thesis. The concentration here is on generic types. Some huts were designed as one-offs and there is no possible way to catalogue these. This thesis has focused instead on those designs or industrially-produced types, which were meant to be produced en-masse as generic solutions to the problem: the sort of hut that might justifiably be given a name (such as a ‘Tarran’, a ‘Seco’, etc.). This thesis provides essential information enabling historians to be able to identify these types. It uses primary and secondary sources to trace the development of these huts and the effect that wartime shortages had on their design. Beginning with the earliest examples of temporary military building, it then focuses on the huts of the First and Second World Wars followed by a study of huts grouped in chapters by material. This research shows that the wartime period pushed industry to make giant leaps forward with construction methods and materials in just a few short years, where otherwise it may have taken decades. This thesis aims to provide the first overview of this process and to enable future researchers to identify and understand the development of these important wartime structures, many of which survive to this day.