Micro-home ownership in a mega-metropolis
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Author(s)
MacCarroll, Christian D. (Christian David)
Advisor(s)
Andrew Scott.
Date Issued
2005
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
As a means to keep pace with today's globally networked society, the home is reconceived as a portable, transformable device that adapts and reconfigures itself to coexist within a range of changing terrains. Ownership will no longer act as a geographical constraint limiting world-wide, long-term travel. Mobile housing affords one the means to explore the landscape without sacrificing the sense of place and permanence provided by "home". Analogous to the work of Archigram, "homes" of the future will have the ability to migrate according to the needs and desires of their populations. This thesis explores the possibilities of transformational, mobile architecture that delivers a diverse range of settlement options. As a means of demonstrating the flexibility of this concept, this micro-home will be incorporated into the social and technological framework of the modem metropolis and examined at both the urban scale of the city and at the micro-scale of the individual.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-51).
Subjects
Architecture.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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