blog wunderlust: 3rd March 2014

One of the biggest mistakes in architecture is that we're expecting society to be interested in the specific problems of architecture. [Architects] need to adjust to what society is discussing. We just provide the forms that can translate their problems into solutions.

Alejandro Aravena

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last word: Car park to replace Art Deco house

on the boards: Container City for Haiti

A Container City project has just been given building approval to be built in the Dominican Republic designed by Richard Moreta, the proposal is to be made from a modular construction system incorporated with recycled shipping containers, to supply housing for victims of the earthquake.

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also preview Frank Lloyd Wright, Complete works 1943-1959 by Taschen

containers 2.0

This week some rather creative uses for containers showed up

as a temporary cinema for short films, meant to be cultural countdown to the winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010 called containR by media artists Springboard.

as an art piece for the folly dock competition made of a folded 40ft cargo container.

on the boards: Container Nation

Container Nation is a 200 unit multi-family development in Salt Lake City, Utah to be constructed out of nearly 1000 shipping containers and built on a concrete plinth containing shops and parking.

Presently in concept phase, the architects Group 41 have proposed schemes that take different approaches to the stacking and build-out of the containers.

the container post

the standard ISO container or ITU (Intermodal Transport Units) is designed to be loaded and sealed intact onto container ships, railroad cars, planes, or trucks. Although there is no standard dimensions for containers the 40 ft (12 m) container is the most popular container worldwide and is typically 8 ft wide by 8'6 high. There are 18 million containers worldwide (2005) and 26% of them originate from China.

now here's the architecture

as weekend retreat

as housing

as shop/ commercial

as temporary housing

as playground

as museum

as art piece

previously
push button house
Trinity Buoy Wharf
the All Terrain Cabin
Pop-ups
container village

and with companies like Global Peace Containers, we can begin to think of them as both man-made and sustainable

additional reference here, here, here

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Following the success of this summer's movie Transformers.... the Push Button House
by Adam Kalkin. The fully furnished space opens like a flower completely revealing a functional living room. The container has motorized walls that on a button reveals an elegant all white space or closes for easy and conventional transportation.

see video

Inhabitat's pre-fab Friday (8th June 2007) features the Container City in Trinity Buoy Wharf, London by Urban Space Management

The All Terrain Cabin

Cabin made from modified container from BARK

pop-ups...not just on your pc

Retail & food shops created from disused/reused shipping containers, dubbed pop-up shops "as the name suggests, these shops pop-up unannounced, do little advertising and a lot of business, and move on."



via butter

All the rage

We know them, we love them, we wish to understand them - MVRDV



that container city vid is some trippy shit!


I hope that is sensual enough for you!

Container Village

container village
Originally uploaded by architechnophilia.

I know many architects like myself have a fetish about container and their wide reaching abilities as mobile structures. I thought it only to post the awful side effects of such architecture, reminds me loose the passion a bit.