container.li Le blog de Elise fossoux Cargotecture: 13 Massive Container Architecture Projects Cargotecture: 13 Massive Container Architecture Projects Article by Steph, filed under Offices & Commercial in the Architecture category. Homes, apartments, offices, emergency shelters – cargo containers are a quick, low-cost, environmentally friendly building block for all of these architectural purposes and more, including massive urban projects that can involve stacking the crates nine stories in the air or grouping thousands into sprawling temporary markets. These 13 shipping container buildings show just how useful these durable, modular, pre-fabricated crates can be. Dordoy Bazaar, Kyrgyzstan (images via: inhabitat) Over 7,000 double-stacked shipping containers make up the kilometer-long Dordoy Bazaar in Kyrgyzstan, one of Asia’s biggest marketplaces. Container City II, Pinchin Street Studios & The Riverside Building, London (images via: containercity.com) Freitag Retail Store, Zurich (images via: archicentral) Midtown Container Mall Concept (images via: curbed) (images via: archdaily)
Crazy for Containers - Design Perhaps UK developer Roger Wade is due for a visit to Seattle. For legions of prefab fans and practitioners, the world’s first exhibit devoted solely to container architecture was long overdue. The Container Architecture Expo opened in Ljubljana in 2010, and last month, after a stop in Paris, made its North American debut at the American Institute of Architects gallery in Seattle. Made of steel or aluminum, shipping containers are an ideal building block: their resistance to hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes makes them well suited to such humanitarian projects as post-disaster housing, schools, health- and community. In 1968, architect Paul Rudolph predicted that, "The mobile home is the 20th century brick"; The shipping container may well be taking its place in the 21st. Hybrid Architecture's "Cargotecture" But, like anything, container architecture has its hits and misses. PUMA City by LOT-EK
Shipping Container Cabin Retreat - Shipping Container Homes - How to Plan, Design and Build your own House out of Cargo Containers | By admin | Category: Profiled ISBU Project Principal Architect / Designer : Damith Premathilake This Shipping Container Holiday Cabin was built entriely from reclaimed materials. Located on an Special Forces army training base in Sri Lanka the cabin is surrounded by jungle and sits oon the shore of a beautiful lake with views to the mountains beyond. The Shipping Container Cabin was constructed in about a month without skilled construction labour under the architect’s instruction. The Architect considered all the natural and man made elements already available in the setting and advised the owner to find the reclaimed material to be used in the project. Principal Architect: Damith Prematikake Associate: Anil Arumpura Photography by Logan MacDougall Pope. The total Project area: 700 Sq.ft Client: Lieutenant Colonel Chandimal Peiris