1st Edition

Planning and Designing the Absent City Campsites as Temporary Settlements

By Luca Trabattoni Copyright 2025
174 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book concerns the study of open-air accommodation facilities. The market evolutions allow us to look at these structures as temporary settlements characterised by a low-density dwelling and a close connection with natural elements and the landscape. This new and different point of view is sustained by the tendency of outdoor tourism to go in the direction of temporary villages, and this... Read more

List of Figures

Introduction: Cultural and Statistical Background of the Temporary City of Tourism

·       People

·       Environment

·       Questions

·       Maxi-Caravan

·       Temporariness

1. Prologue: An Introduction to Temporary Settlements and Living Landscape (Quick Time)

·       The Burning Man Festival

·       Kumbh Mela

·       Quick Time

2. Campsite Experience: Or the Dream of Walden Full Option (Medium Time)

·       ACT 1: Historical Background

Travelling in Nature

Vehicles

Holiday Camp

Free TIme

Epilogue

·       ACT 2: Pioneers of Open-Air hospitality

Club Med

Costa Smeralda

Italian Touring Club (TCI)

·       ACT 3: Pioneers of Architectural Solutions

Ciutat de Repos y Vacances - 1934/1936 - GATPAC

Hotel San Michele - 1938 - Giò Ponti, Bernard Rodowsfy

 Desert Hill Hotel - 1947 - Albert Frey

Unitè de Camping - 1949 - Le Corbusier

Eni Village Borca di Cadore - 1954 - Edoardo Gellner, Carlo Scarpa

Camping Fusina - 1957 - Carlo Scarpa

Capsule Village Resort in Usami - 1972 - Kisho Kurokawa

Coastal Tourist Village - 2002 - Luigi Snozzi

·       ACT 4: Landscape’s Laws and Order

Landscape Definitions

·       ACT 5: Outdoor Facilities Actual Definition

Maxi-Caravan Landscape

The Settlement System (Graphic Results of the “Mobile Home" Research Coordinated with AUDe Laboratory of the University of Pavia)

Strategies of Camping Development

Clustering and Landscape Construction

·       ACT 6: Medium Time

Epilogue: The Experience of Refugee Camp as Long Temporary Settlements (Long Time)

·       Definition and Organisation

·       Who Lives in the Refugee Camp?

Possible Development

Strategies

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Luca Trabattoni is Associate Professor at the Opole University of Technology (Poland), belonging to the Department of Architecture and Planning since 2018, where he teaches Landscape and Interior Design. He is an on contract professor for the courses of Architectural Composition at the Polytechnic of Milan and at the University of Pavia, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture and for the course of Materials Technology at the NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts) in Milan. He is a freelancer and co- founder of “ARCò architecture and cooperation” that studies the approach to emergency architecture in relation to the theme of sustainability, realising building all over the world. ARCò’s work has been published in various international journals and has received numerous awards. He collaborates with the AUDE research laboratory of the University of Pavia, cocoordinating the research project on Mobile Homes. He founded “Camp Design and Architecture” to develop the theme of landscape design for campsites.