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n 41
butan
1L
300 cm x 480 cm

inox
25 kn

25 kn
ø 8 cm

25 kn

25 kn
600 gr

ø 0,8 cm L 20 m ø 0,8 cm L 20 m
ø 0,8 cm L 60 m

7-12 kn
10-12 kn
50 L

50 L

fire

ø 6 cm L 200 cm

Peso zaino : 13,00 kg

Costo zaino : 1050,00 €
Superficie: 13,5 mq

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Is it possible to experience a landscape through a sign?
Is it enough to use the given landscape conditions?
Is it possible to experience a landscape without leaving a trace?

This tent, built for research and awareness-raising, stands in a dune landscape along the eastcoast
of the city Esperance in South-Western Australia.

This bio-region has a very special environmental condition, a Mediterranean climate and it’s
characterized by a special geological phenomena: the territory is made of a platform of granite and
gnesiss, which through it’s depressions and reliefs, influences the surrounding landscape.

Along the coastline, this granitic scenery features expanses of sand on the surface. These sand dunes
move, and this movement produces changes in the landscape of which they are the basic element.
The movement is due to climatic and natural conditions, wind and tides, rain and vegetation and
while the dunes change and move, the granite monads, emerging from the sand, appear to the
observer as the primordial origin of this land and become the only fixed point in this unstable
landscape.
Studying the territory emerged that the building material present in greatest quantity is the
eucalyptus tree, which thanks to it’s characteristics allows it to be applied in different fields, from
the production of structural components to the realization of fibres for fabrics and ropes.

Since its discovery, this bay has provided protection and shelter to man. But, at a given moment,
it began to be exploited for its resources. The gold fever, the nickel rush, livestock farming and
intensive agriculture, indelible marks left by man on the Esperance territory.

Ettore Sottsass has shown how small anthropic gestures in the landscape can influence living
conditions.
“It seemed to me that if you wanted to regain something, you had to start by regaining microscopic
gestures, elementary actions, the sense of your own position”

E. Sotsass, Disegni per i destini dell’uomo, 1972-79

This was the starting point for the study process: the need to look at, observe and re-evaluate a
place only submitted to continuous exploitation, where sand dunes erase and annul every trace of
it.

The tent as a synthesis of man’s primordial needs, its structural simplicity allows life, using as
little energy as possible for its construction. This living concept is still used today by the Bedouin,
people who live in close contact with nature and take advantage of its simple characteristics. They
promote life of small gestures, leaving traces that are devoured over time, moving silently through
the territory without invading it, driven only by the need to be absorbed and protected by the
landscape.

Roving architecture is the concept that conditions our design process: reducing the structure to it’s
primordial essence, the material becomes a figure no longer needed in the living process. A survival
kit, a rope, a sheet, hooks and bags to be filled with the surrounding sand.

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