Yona Friedman argued that each individual imagines his own house, his own world. Therefore the house and world of each individual doesn't have to look like the house and world imagined by the others. Depending on this idea he started to develop techniques to create a house imagined by its inhabitant. His main question in this working period was; 'How could we adapt the form an inhabitant thinks of one day to another form he would prefer later, another day?' Depending on this question he developed many projects, where the user can change the personal space as his own will.
In his manifesto 'Mobile Architecture' in 1958 he was questioning the fact of "mobility" not as "the mobility of the building" more "the mobility of the user", whom was given a new freedom. Mobile architecture is thus the "dwelling decided on by the occupant" by way of "infrastructures that are neither determined nor determining". Mobile architecture thus meant an architecture that was available for a "mobile society". To deal with this society the classical architect invented "the average man" and just questioned the needs of this average person, and therefore the architecture created in 50's for Friedman was only the appearance of the needs of an individual person.
With the mobile architecture Friedman supported the structures which are accessible for the different needs of different occupants and after the occupant leaves the structure responds to needs of the next occupant.
Based on Friedman’s idea of “mobility”, today’s techniques of digital manufacturing and emergent strategies in architecture allow us to develop a new sense of individuality in dwellings. The mobile space can be supported through software systems and reorganized or regenerated many times responding on the users needs.
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