Theater Space Built From 28 Shipping Containers
July 15, 2009 by green team
Filed under Design
Images from Platoon via Archdaily
A wonderful designer idea but we’re not exactly certain about the level of “greenness”. Although the materials are “recycled”, the theatre space would be more green if it were more minimalist and “open air”. Nonetheless, a very cool structural design that is MIK (made in Korea).
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Theater Space Built From 28 Shipping Containers
by Lloyd Alter
treehugger.com
I have always been a bit dubious about shipping containers as architectural elements; my dad used to make them and I grew up around them, and thought that the dimensions were all wrong for people; there was not much that you could do in a 7′-6″ interior (or so I thought). Also, they are monocoque construction; the walls are the structure. So when you start taking the walls out and replacing them with beams, pretty soon you have little more than the idea of a shipping container. That was my first thought when I looked at Platoon Kunsthalle , an arts facility by Graft Architects in Seoul, Korea, built from 28 shipping containers.
The building uses the containers as a kind of building block, surrounding enclosing the space. The interiors of the containers are used for washrooms, offices and smaller uses.
Are they new containers, made specifically for the building? They sure look like it. This would negate the main benefit and feature of container structures, that they use an existing resource that is in oversupply.
