Shipping container architecture
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about shipping container architecture
Project • By Smith Gee Studio • Apartments
83 Freight
Located in Nashville’s Wedgewood Houston neighborhood, 83 Freight provides unique, sustainable living options through an architecture of reflection, inspiration, and a sense of place and unity representative of this location. As the largest residential shipping container project in North America, 173 shipping containers stacked, rotated, and offset form three buildings of 83 residential units of varying sizes: micro-studios, 1BR, and 2BR. The design intentionally expresses the raw materiality and simple utilitarian construct of the box inside and out.
Matt Carbone
Matt Carbone
Matt Carbone
Exposing the weathered container exterior and the ISO identification codes and numbers exploits the remains of an envir... More
Project • By Blok Modular • Sports Centres
Flipside Circus
This project is the new headquarters for Australia’s largest youth circus organisation. The project reflects the more pragmatic and industrial aesthetic of contemporary Australian circus, which rejects the artifice and costuming of traditional circus.
Christopher Frederick Jones
Christopher Frederick Jones
The building becomes an adaptable, adjustable circus apparatus which performers scale, climb, and swing from. It is a low-cost project that can be easily disassembled and relocated, throughout its life, like a modular circus tent.
The scheme uses twenty-eight shipping containers stacked four storeys high like large bricks to form an external perimeter wall around the 12m high practice and performance spaces.
Christoph... More
News • News • 6 Jul 2022
The Pitch by Mark Odom Studio repurposes shipping containers to form a vibrant new hub for Austin, Texas
Located in Austin, Texas, The Pitch is a new hospitality and entertainment complex made from shipping containers. Designed by Mark Odon Studio, the development forms part of a large sports venue and entertainment complex for Austin FC fans and the wider community.
Casey Dunn
The complex comprises 23 repurposed shipping containers of two standard modular sizes: 8 x 20 feet and 8 x 40 feet. The containers are stacked to create two storeys and then organized into five separate building pods. The once flat site is heavily landscaped to help the containers nestle and absorb the grade changes.
Casey Dunn
Ground-level containers are reserved as food and beverage outlets for local vendors while the second level containers offer viewing... More