Diller and Scofidio_Home Bodies on Vacation
Is ‘home’ an internal individual construct, an external physical entity, or a combination of both? If tourism can offer the traveler the ability to “leave without going,” if it has the ability to atomize the home for the purpose of comfortable travel, if we can take home with us in a sense, does the possibility for a truly nomadic yet modern lifestyle become realizable? Could architecture create the physical framework for cities and regions which accept the individual’s desire/need for mobility? Could we become a world of perpetual travelers, stopping in places to learn, work and play all at once; simultaneously? What if travel to new places was not accomplished on a weekly or monthly timeline as tourists, but say yearly or longer as temporary inhabitants, staying in places for longer periods of time than a vacation would permit yet able to leave swiftly when deemed time. Can the architecture of the home be a completely transportable self-contained unit, much as Diller and Scofidio’s traveling exhibition is? Would this be a return to a (albeit modern) Renaissance mode of travel/living?
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