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Typologie - the camping tent 

 

The new volume in the Collections Typologie series is dedicated to the camping tent. A common feature of both rural landscapes and urban spaces, the tent is an omnipresent typology whose apparent simplicity is deceptive.

 

Halfway between architecture one can manipulate and furniture one can inhabit, the tent serves multiple purposes and brings together a variety of disparate realities. A reminiscence of primitive huts and a descendant of military camps, it can be a shelter for leisure or for survival—fragile yet resilient, protective yet porous—and is used in both controlled and extreme environments.

 

A basic assembly of high-performance materials, it is designed in the West and produced in Southeast Asia.

 

Even more than the single-material objects explored in previous Typologie issues, this composite object reveals the complex nature of the things that surround us.