The Concept of Tent as a Temporary Architecture in the Millennium Era

Abstract

The phenomenon of temporary architecture in contemporary urban and rural areas occurs due to permanent space limitations in accommodating dynamic environments. One of the temporary architectures that offer high flexibility is the tent. Despite often being underestimated or not entirely accepted as architecture, its adaptability has opened up opportunities for a new idea of elasticity and plasticity in this contemporary era. This research searches to question the stagnant paradigm by reinvestigating its temporal character. History- and theory-based bibliography methods are used to stimulate the informal meaning of the tent. The result is the concept actualization of contemporary tent architecture. The findings are a different perspective of nomadism, the tent’s simple concept, and a multi-dimensional tent’s scale. The novelty of the research is the new meaning of tents as a type of contemporary informal architecture.