Inhabiting Flow: Strategies for Tourist Oriented Architecture in Volatile Icelandic Landscapes

• Main Author: Ellis, Robin
• Other Authors: School of Architecture, Master of Architecture, Brian Carter, Steve Parcell, Roger Mullin, Ted Cavanagh, Not Applicable
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Landscape; Tourism; Flows; Impermanence; Vernacular; Heimaey; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/76258

The volatile terrain in Iceland, a landscape of perpetual flux in the space of places, flows and time, demands building methods which are empathetic to its unwieldy behaviour. An inundation of tourists over the past decade has influenced both rural and urban approaches to development and occupancy,...