Alp Shelter

This shelter in the alps combines anthropocentric design and passive systems in an way that is reminiscent of the set design in Kubrick's 2001.

http://www.dezeen.com/2011/12/03/new-refuge-gervasutti-by-leapfactory/#more-178090

The space of contingency

http://trampoline.org.uk/tracingmobility/

An interesting selection of art and theory exploring mapping , moving, meaning. Below is Adam Bartoll's scale model concretion of a popular online video game "Counter Strike". Virtual architecture made real.

Nowhere Man

Alternative shelter goes downscale (but upmarket?) hip! Yet that dome feels very familiar to my deep collective subconscious.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/nov/27/alex-hartley-nowhereisland-cultural-olympiad?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038

Bus Shelter as Memory

A friend in Belgium, Erwin Keustermans, posted this on Facebook recently. I'm re- posting it here since it brings together the prosaic with the personal in a way that re-enchants the generic locale/ architecture.

"I was twelve when I decided to run away. Not that I was being mistreated or anything. I waited till dark, put a few coats over each other and slipped out of the house. I sat on the floor of this bus stop opposite the house (*) to think of a plan. Then walked for several hours and finally pushed an alarm button on a police station. The police came from a nearby town, gave me hot coffee, and brought me home, warning me that my parents might be a bit upset by their late call. Which they were. The net result was that a Latin test due shortly after that was delayed because of 'serious reasons' which my teacher sniffed at as being a particularly fishy excuse."

Rubber Room

Check out this Rubber "Shelter"

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/08/23/rubber-house-by-zeinstra-van-gelderen-architecten/

Shelter in Art and Design at MOMA

At the Museum of Modern Art currently is a show from the 1980's until the present which had a display of Andrea Zittel's concepts for modular ,contingent living.

In the design section was this pod/womb-like sculpture (Cries and Whispers), conceived by Hill Jephson Robb to help comfort his seven month old niece for the loss of her mother.

Eastern Woodlands

An American Museum of Natural History artist's rendition (circa 1950's) of a pre-contact village in the Eastern woodlands.

For some contemporary artists versions of "Arcadia" , go to:

www.arcadianow.net

Portable Shelter Action

These two had the great idea to be both pragmatic and poetic by mounting effigies (color- coordinated, no less) of blanked out I Pads on umbrellas for the afternoon Union Square assembly of Occupy Wall Street's Nov 17 Day of Action in NYC

Dyson's Designs

One of the architect Arthur Dyson's models for communal housing units from the "East of Fresno" exhibition. His work was one of many artists who presented their work in the ruins of a former intentional community in the Sierra foothills in September 2011.

http://thehatcheryartspaces.org/

Pata-psyco-physic- geography

A path from west to east Manhattan, noting shelter/container landmarks along the way. Nov 13, 2011