TENSILE ARCHITECTURE AND SUSTAINABLE APPROACH

Introduction: Temporary Architecture and tensile membrane structure
«In architecture, permanence is mainly associated with the endurance of material and durability of construction. Temporary architecture, on the contrary, has a predetermined and brief life span. […]
Investigating the permanent and temporary qualities of architecture, Bernard Tschumi states that architecture is not meant to be permanent; it cannot be related to a limited time. Tschumi re-examines the Vitruvian trilogy of “venustas, firmitas and utilitas”, describes “firmitas” as a “structural ability” and discovers that three qualities have remained obsessively in thoughts for centuries. He asks if these architectural constants did not exist, how would architecture be? Moreover, he underlines the fact that the permanence of architecture can be a bad mental habit and is a result of intellectual laziness that has been observed throughout the history. Jean Nouvel, on the other hand, like Peter Zumthor, asserts that architecture is related to light constructions that are “not heavy”, “changeable”, “permanent”, “dematerialized” and “not matter bounded”. There are several forms of designing temporary architecture such as exposition, exhibition and pavilion. […] The architects of the temporary structures experience new ways of architecture, all the while questioning what the future of architecture might be and how their experimentation can be represented. […]