Shipping container construction
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about shipping container construction
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
Project • By Ludwig Hansen Architects • Car Parks
Temporary Gatehouse
The objective of the project was to design a temporary security access gatehouse for the University of Mpumalanga for the period that the new main entrance is being constructed. A big challenge from the onset of the project was the extremely limited timeframe to implement the gatehouse paired with its temporary nature.
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A combined consciousness of time and temporality informed the design approach and explored the conversion of two 6m containers into a gatehouse facility that contains security offices, ablutions, pedestrian, and vehicular access control to the university campus.
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Beyond the time advantage of a container conversion, this construction method would give a physically lighter footprint onsite... More
News • News • 27 Oct 2021
Milky’s Cloud Room embraces the ethos of ‘slow coffee’ within a custom-designed shipping container construction
Embracing the ethos of ‘slow coffee’, the latest Milky’s Cloud Room location in Toronto features dynamically changing lights and a brew bar for making handcrafted coffee and tea. Designed and built by Full Fat Design, the architectural and graphic language draws from that created for Milky’s by Batay-Csorba Architecture, ensuring a familiar yet distinctly unique brand feeling.
Riley Snelling
The name Cloud Room derives from the moving light that collects shadows in the three-dimensional travertine pattern covering the walls and ceiling. Mimicking the shadows of moving clouds across the wall, light shifts at a slow pace that is imperceptible when stared at but noticeable over the time it takes to enj... More
News • News • 6 Apr 2021
APROP Ciutat Vella offers a strategic solution to gentrification in Barcelona
The APROP Ciutat Vella project in Barcelona is the first building designed and built through the Close Proximity Temporary Housing Program (APROP), an initiative promoted by Barcelona City to counter the ongoing gentrification of the city. The program strives to provide more democratic and affordable housing solutions with strategies such as developing properties that have not fulfilled their potential buildability or redesignating excessively large public places that could be better utilized as housing.
Adria Goula
Designed by Straddle 3 Architects and constructed with shipping containers, APROP Ciutat Vella will temporarily house neighbourhood residents who have suffered an eviction. The use of shipping containers for the bui... More
Project • By Hombre de Piedra Arquitectos • Transports
Seville Cruise Ship Terminal Phase 2
The second parts can also be good. This is the second part of our Seville Cruise Terminal project, which expands and upgrades the original building.
Ports and cities share the common feature of undergoing constant change. To resolve the challenges brought on by that interaction, port buildings must be able to change over time, without recourse to improvisation. One solution can be to propose modular industrial architecture that highlights the port’s distinctive nature, though designed with the architectural quality required to ensure the respective urban integration.
In that regard, the Port of Seville needed a new cruise ship terminal that would be flexible, multi-purpose, extendable, easily removable and even transportable. That w... More
Project • By MOJURU Modular Buildings, S.L. • Private Houses
Casa en la Sierra
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Cabaña Container
La idea principal del proyecto es dar un nuevo uso,más pasivo, a unos contenedores de uso industrial yasí disminuir, o hasta eliminar, el impacto ambientalnegativo que tuvieron en su pasado.También, es la representación de las emociones queexisten EnTRE el humano y su medio ambiente, de modoque no solo se centre en la apariencia estética, sinoque también enfatice la simbiosis con la naturaleza.La cabaña container es entonces una reconciliaciónsimbólicamente irónica de esos dos organismosdonde los contenedores son metafóricamente lamaterialización del impacto que el humano tienesobre la naturaleza.Por otro lado, los interiores respetan las necesidadesque debemos encontrar en un hogar mientras quedan una sensación de comodidad y de calidezcon... More
Container Park
İDE.EGE Technopark A. Ş. is a technopark project as part of Ege University in Izmir, Turkey. The first development project within this 50,000 m² masterplan repurposes 35 second hand shipping containers to galvanize a talented community in Izmir and beyond. The facility houses independent R&D firms focusing on biotechnology, energy, materials and software. This program is coupled with “catalysts” such as a hackerspace and a gallery to increase interaction and collaboration potential among all members.The project’s need was the creation of a space that housed office and laboratory units to be rented out and moved to different locations as needed. At this point, building types with a simple construction process and the opportunities i... More