Ephemeral Architecture

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Ephemeral Architecture challenges this notion. While the software world has embraced agile development, being ready for the fast-changing requirements of technology, architecture somehow got left behind.

There is a movement of reusable industrial modules being used to make structures that can be modified as per needs (truly form following function).

I share the work I've done with Freeman Murray and the Jaaga Study community as Designer-in-Residence. The scale of the work has progressively grown from a single farm unit, to a cluster at Burning Man, and finally a science-fictioney universe being created near the Bangalore Airport - complete with it's own 2001: A Space Odyssey-like black monolith at the centre.

We're going open-source with this. The community designs, and the community builds. Nomadic spaces that can be flat packed and moved at very short notice.

Transcript

1. Ephemeral Architecture Bharat Agarwal 21.12.2016
3. What is the lifespan of the construction around us today?
4. Will they suitable for requirements in 50 years’ time?
5. In an ever-changing world, why create situations of such inertia? Waterfall Agile
6. Build out of pre-existing reusable modules (object oriented programming anyone?) pallet racks shipping containers
7. insulation foam panels slotted angles
8. Kumbh Mela the mother of ephemeral architectural festivals
9. ALLAHABAD before
10. ALLAHABAD during
11. Burning Man Festival, Nevada
13. Pallet Racks at Burning Man
14. Pallet Racks at Double Road
16. STAGE I HAMSAH ORGANIC FARM, SARJAPUR
18. Crucial to the vision of developing on peri-urban sites is the electric unicycles completing last mile connectivity Farm to Bus Stop via unicycle Bus Stop to Bus Stop via Bus (carrying unicycle) Bus Stop to Cubbon Park + via unicycle
19. Pallet Racks at Hamsah Organic Farm
20. Pallet Racks at Hamsah Organic Farm
23. amphitheater tents tents solar panels
24. coworking at the lower level
25. STAGE II BURNING MAN FESTIVAL, NEVADA
26. Design with Pallet Racks for Burning Man
27. public hang-out spaces, and display uprights
28. residential units for burning man
29. residential units for burning man
30. combined cluster of public and private space
31. cluster in context of the ‘disorient’ camp
32. STAGE III YELAHANKA SITE, NEAR BENGALURU AIRPORT
34. ~ 7 acres ~ 300,000 sq ft