Name Year AssemblabilityDisassemblability
Diogene 2013 Y N
Fab lab house 2010 Y N
m-ch: micro compact home 2000 Y
Tricycle House and Tricycle Garden 2012 Y
Yi Duo House 2012 Y
micro-house 2013
Lakeside Plugin Tower 2017 Y Y
MOVILLA 2016 Y
KODA 2016 Y N
2.363m2 house 2016 Y
Opod Y N
Liina Transitional Shelter 2011 Y Y
ECObitat 2010 Y
MINIMOD 2018 Y N
Cardboard House 1995 Y Y
Home Box 2011 Y
N4+ Gluebam House 2012 Y Y
EDV-01 Y N
Nebula 2011 Y
Nautic Cleb of Aldeia do Mato 2004 Y N
Encuentro Guadalupe Hotel 2011 Y
The Hollow Trunk (Le Tronc creux) Y N
LeapHut 2012 Y N
Hut on Sleds 2012 Y
Morerava Cabins 2010 Y
Cabanon de Le Corbusier 1951
ROB Y
Cloud Inflatable Meeting Room 2003 Y
Better Shelter 2009 Y Y
L41 studio Y
Polar Lab 2005 Y
Safe Haven Library 2009 N N
Das Park Hotel 2009 Y N
Sommer Container 2002 Y
Maison Portable 1996 Y
M-velope Y Y
Push Botton House 1 2005 Y
house No. 19 2003 Y
Bulles Six Coques 1968 Y
kitHAUS 2005 Y
Paper Dome 1995 Y Y
Porta Palace 2015 Y
Wichita House 1944-1Y Y
Extended Height MECC(Mobile Extenda1981 Y
Halley VI British Antarctic Research St2005-2Y Y
Airstream 1930s Y
Flexotels 2007 Y Y
spacebox 2004 Y
MICRO DWELLINGS 2005
Ecocapsule 2015 Y
Classroom of the future project 2008 Y
The Tiny Travelling Theatre 2012 Y
“De Markies” (The Awning) 1985 Y
Portable Construction Training Center 1999-2000
Loft Cube 2014 Y
Blob VB3 2007-2Y N
WALKING HOUSE 2008 Y
Future Shack 1985-2Y
Lot-Ek: Mobile Dwelling Unit 2003 Y
Cardboard House in Australia 2004 Y Y
Heliotrope 1994
Caja Obscura 2012
Sliding House 2009
Laboratorio di Quartiere 1979 Y Y
Vernacular Buildings
Zulu Hut 1709 Y Y
Tanka Boat Y
Bender tent Y Y
Shepherd's hut 14th cY
Wichita grass lodge Y Y
Vardo-traditional wagon 1850-1Y
Architects Area(m2)
Renzo Piano 7.5
IAAC 75
HCL Architects 7.29
OMD
People's Architecture Office (PAO)
micro house atelier
Studio Liu Lubin 11.7
People's Architecture Office (PAO) 480
Ge Wenjun 37.4
Kodasema OÜ 28
Wang Yun 2.363
James Law Cybertecture 11.5
Aalto University Wood Program 25.9
Felipe Campolina 32
MAPA Architects 20-110
Shigeru Ban Architects
Architech - Architecture and Technology 63
Advanced Architecture Lab 60
Dawia Lease & Yatsutaka Yoshimura Architects
Austin Maynard Architects 12-38
Cannatà & Fernandes
graciastudio 20
Yvan Detraz
LEAP FACTORY 30
Crosson Architects
AATA Associate Architects 77
Le Corbusier 15
Robust outdoor Brands
Offecct 16
Better Shelter
Michael Katz 25.3
Richard Horden 2.75-12.15
Rintala Eggertsson Architects
Andreas Strauss
Markku Hedman, Karhu 5.6-9.8
Philippe Grégoire, Claire Petetin
Michael Jantzen
Adam Kalkin
Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architects
Jean-Benjamin Maneval 36
kitHAUS 7.5-45
Shigeru Ban Architects 150
Daniel Venneman
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Weatherhaven
Hugh Broughton Architects
Wally Byam
Hubert von Heijden
Mart De Jong about 20
N55 about 5.76
Nice architects
GLA & LB of Camden
Aberrant Architecture
Böhdlingk Architektur 9-27
OMD 95.4
Werner Aisslinger 44
dmvA 20
N55
Sean Godsell Architects
LOT/EK 46.5
Peter Stutchbury
Rolf Disch
Javier Corvalán + Laboratorio de Arquitectura 85
dRMM architects
Studio Piano & Rice
Zulu people in Africa
Canton, Fujian vernacular house on boat
sub-saharan Africa's vernacular house
Wichita tribe
Romani people
Material TransportabilityWeight (kg/m2)Country
Germany
wood
aluminum, wood, OSB Germany
USA
PP China
wood, pc panel China
intensed fabric China
China
China
Y Estonia
steel panel China
concrete Y Hong Kong, China
wood Y Finland
steel , OSB Y Brazil
wood Y Brazil
paper Y Japan
wood Y Italy
bamboo Y China
metal Y Japan
Y Australia
wood Portugal
wood, steel USA
wood, steel Y France
wood, steel, rockwool Y Italy
wood Y New Zealand
wood Italy
wood France
Y Switzerland
Nylon fabric Y Norway
Y Sweden
CLT, zinc plate USA
Y Germany
wood, concrete N Thailand
concrete Austria
wood Y Netherland
Y Germany
wood Y USA
container Y USA
wood Y Netherland
polyester plastic Y France
wood, steel Y
paper, corrugated polyc Y Japan, Taiwan
wood Y Netherland
metal Y USA
steel, canvas, plastic Y Canada
Y Antartica
aluminum Y USA
Y Netherland
plastic Y Netherland
steel panel Y Denmark
fiber glass, steel Y Slovakia
Y UK
OSB, Steel panel Y UK
Y Netherland
Y USA
wood Y Austria
wood Y Belgium
wood, steel, plywood Y Denmark
container Y Australia
container Y USA
cardboard Y Australia
Germany
Paraguay
UK
Y Italy
wood Y Africa
Y China
wood, tarpaulin Y sub-saharan Africa
corrugated iron Y UK, France
wood, grass Y USA
wood, canvas Y UK
DeformabilityDeformation ModeStructural System
N
Y modularization
cylindric concrete
wooden panel
N steel frame
Y linear
Y rotational
N frame: lightweight wood
N frame: lightweight steel
N cylindric steel
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
Y
N
N concrete
Y linear
Y linear
Y rotational wood
Y rotational container
Y rotational wood
N polyester plastic
Y modularization steel frame
N wood
N wood
N steel frame
Y rotational steel frame
Y linear steel frame
N
Y rotational steel frame, hinge
Y linear
Y linear steel frame
N steel frame
Y rotational
N
Y rotational
Y rotational
N wooden panel
N wooden frame
N wooden frame
N container
Y linear container
N cardboard
Y rotational
Y rotational
Y linear
Y rotational
N wood
N
N wood
N iron
N wooden frame
N wooden frame
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Plug-In City 1960-1974 Peter Cook
Dymaxion Deployment Unit (D.D.U) 1940 Richard Buckminster Fuller
Fun Palace 1961-1972 Cedric Price & Joan Littlewood
Potteries Thinkbelt 1964 Cedric Price
Tree Village Richard Horden
The Dynamic D*Haus The D*Haus Company
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XS: Big Ideas, Small Buildings
XS Green: Big Ideas, Small Buildings
XS Extreme: Big Ideas, Small Buildings
Micro : very small architecture
More Mobile一Portable Architecture for Today
New Portable Architecture—Designing mobile&temporary structures
由建造到设计——可以移动建筑产品研发设计及过程管理方法
建筑学视野下的建筑构造技术发展演变
On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History
Shelter
The Minimum Dwelling
Mobitecture architecture on the move
Mobile: The Art of Portable Architecture
Transportable environments: theory, context, design, and technology
Flexible : architecture that responds to change
Portable Architecture: Design and Technology
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Portable Architecture
mobile architecture: construction and design manual
Lot-Ek: Mobile Dwelling Unit
Dwellings: The House Across the World
Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world
Built to Meet Needs: Cultural Issues in Vernacular Architecture
Trasportabile/Trasformabile. Idee e tecniche per architetture in movimento
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Richard Horden 2008
Phyllis Richardson 2001
Phyllis Richardson 2007
Phyllis Richardson 2009
Slavid, Ruth 2007 Internet archive
Jennifer Siegal 2008
Wang Shaoqiang 2014 English
丛勐 2017
董凌 2017
Joseph Rykwert 1972 Y Chinese edition
Lloyd Kahn 1973 Y English
Karel Teige 1932 Y English
Rebecca Roke 2017
Jennifer Siegal 2002 Internet archive English
Robert Kronenburg 1998 Y English
Robert Kronenburg 2007 English
Robert Kronenburg 2008 Y English
Robert Kronenburg 2014 English
Robert Kronenburg 2003 Y English
2012
Kim Seonwook, Pyo Miyoung English
LOT/EK 2003 Internet archive English
Oliver, Paul 1987 Internet archive English
Oliver, Paul 1997 Internet archive English
Oliver, Paul 2006 Internet archive English
Alessandra Zanelli 2003 Italian
Name
Transformable and transportable architecture:
analysis of buildings components
and strategies for project design
Author Year
Carolina De Marco Werner 2013
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