Emilio Perez Piñero and the Contemporary Lightweight Collective

Today, the necessary versatility of the limited common space in our cities and our transient lifestyle establish a contemporary framework to reevaluate the work of collapsible and transformable built environments and their potential to produce lightweight and affordable solutions. In a call to rethink the impermanence of space, the project ‘Deploy’ interrogates the context of the last fifty years of Spanish architecture with the intention of developing a framework to question the possibilities of deployable structures within the public realm. The project looks from the mechanics in the structural prototypes of Spanish architect Emilio Perez Pinero in the 60’s, that attempted to provide an illusory flexible space in a postwar era, to the contemporary post-economic-crisis proposals such as the ‘Escaravox’ by Andres Jaque, ‘Eco-Boulevard’ by Ecosistemas Urbanos and ‘El Circo’ by Santiago Cirugeda, which hold a critical position with their current urban context.

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-14-2