Deployable Structures. Mec-Art: Projects. MUV BOX - POP-UP DINNING. Wind and Solar Powered Shipping Container Unfolds Into Traveling Cultural Exhibition World In A Shell – Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World. The mobile exhibition space also comes equipped with a water recycling system, data monitoring, cube modules with various purposes, and computers for data collection.
Kalliwoda describes his project as polliniferous, meaning it has the ability to carry pollen — in this case, pollen is a metaphor for knowledge. World In A Shell is designed to carry knowledge around the world and ‘pollinate’ other cultures. The project launched its tour in March of 2010 at the MuseumPark in Rotterdam, and it will travel for the next 5 years to remote spots in culturally significant places to capture and store pictures, drawings, recordings, stories, self-representations, and art works about local people, their culture, and their living conditions. As the walk-in-sculpture travels around the globe, it takes with it all this information and passes it on to the next group of people. Mobile Minimalism. Flavio Galvagni of Lab Zero has a few projects that I think deserve mention here.
[Image: The solar-powered Minimum Mobile Module by Lab Zero]. Let me say right away, though, that I know a lot of people are tired of shipping container architecture – in fact, I think most people are tired of shipping container architecture – yet I have a fairly limitless patience for this sort of thing. Be-coc - habitat mobile, modulable, caravane, mobil-home, kiosque ambulant, cabane de chantier, camping-car.