Green Mountain Hut

Students at Green Mountain College in Poultney,Vermont, developed a shed for urban situations that addresses needs of the urban gardeners of the future. The Occupy Vacant Lots , or OVal shed. Having spent some time with both the students and faculty at the college, I appreciate their continued commitment to developing a creative approach to sustainable living

Occupy Vacant Lots Project Constructs a Pre-Fab Shed for Urban Gardeners | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Panopticons

From a FB post shared by Alexandra Kostrouble:

These futuristic structures are distributed in the Blackburn, Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale districts of East Lancashire, England.

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/30/the-panopticons/

Eccentric Enclosures

An artist named Whiting Tennis constructs anthropocentric shelters and sculptures that also embody animal forms, giving the work a surreal combine quality.

This work is titled:

BOVINE, 2006 Lumber, found plywood and found objects 8.5 x 14 x 7.5 feet

I find this piece interesting in that it is less articulated, more brute, than some of his other work.

More of his work can be seen at:

http://www.gregkucera.com/tennis_sculpture.htm

Soap Box Shelter, 2011

In a project I  concieved for NEXT,  whose link is :

 http://667shotwell.com/Projects/2011/next/NEXT_issue1.pdf
 

I've combined the means of public address with a built -in shelter. The progressive steps are also symbolic of progress/ a jumping off point.   Thanks to Chris Sollars at 667 Shotwell for a great compilation of ideas in issue #1 of NEXT.            

A Tale of Two Cabins

A James Benning image from the book "Two Cabins" . (Thoreau's and Kaczynski's) published by A.R.T. at: http://artresourcestransfer.org/book_profile.php?id=67

"a project based publication edited by Julie Ault that documents and analyzes a recent body of work by critically acclaimed filmmaker James Benning. The book includes photography by Benning, essays by Ault, Benning, and Dick Hebdige, and extracts from Henry David Thoreau’s and Ted Kaczynski’s writings." from Julie Ault on FB

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/