Tensile architecture and sustainable approach

The chapter deals with the subject of temporary architecture, which can be actually completed by means of various technologies, either sustainable or invasive, but eventually both with a short period of impact. The chance of designing temporary architecture with the tensile structures is investigated, mainly from the sustainable and bioclimatic point of view. A number of cultural background are analyzed so as to perceive the amount of interest that this subject again arises within the scientific community, then the mechanical and technological aspects of such systems are outlined. The characteristics of lightness and transparency, that the membranes - which usually define the envelope of the tensile structures - own, can be considered more as a filter than as barriers between the outdoor flows from outside and vice versa. Temporary spaces that are configurated by such systems as well as the aforesaid membranes are analyzed and their immense shape declination is outlined. Finally some illustrious examples of the history are shown, so as to demonstrate the level of bioregionalism that such systems, under certain peculiar circumstances, could eventually achieve.