Container architecture : modular construction marvels

Includes index

Qiyun Mountain Camp -- Vinicolo Hub -- Wyss family container house -- Educan -- Cool Cool Seaside -- Walter Sports Center in Halsskov -- Containerwerkstatt -- Runway of Life -- Urban Rigger -- Kotubuki Cheese Factory -- Muangthongthani Carcare -- Rainbow -- Mua Getaway Palice -- La Maison du Chantier -- Porcelain Gallery -- Café Contejner -- Frankie & Johnny -- Milky's Cloud Room -- Containers Franceschi -- Skatepark in a Box -- Running Horse Wines Cellar door -- Sideriya Bar -- Container Park -- Headquarters Containermanufaktur -- Shah and Arumugaswamy residence -- CURA -- Cafe Chino -- Atlas workshop and office -- Monarch Village -- Totel Tin Inn -- The Orange Box -- Bergheim Tiny Holiday -- Walkingboxes Foodtrailer -- Pretzel container stores -- Geneseo Inn -- Pop Kudamm -- Bays 6-8 Heritage offices --
GSC -- Conbriggi Hausboot -- Orange Cube -- Meditation Space for Creation -- Dock Inn Hostel -- The Pitch -- Smoking Box -- Phoxxi Temporäres Haus der Photographie

"In the 1950s, plain steel boxes with corrugated profiles revolutionized the international trade sector. Today, these huge receptacles for storing and transporting cargo have found their way into architecture to become an essential part of the contemporary global building culture. These standardized, strictly geometrically conceived units are the basis for increasingly astonishing architectural applications and design experiments. In our ever-changing world with its hybrid forms of living and working, this book presents a collection of remarkable concepts and solutions based on containers. In very different contexts, they are stacked, cut, and assembled to create sophisticated design concepts and cleverly conceived functional solutions. As different as the approaches and uses may be, they all share the underlying high quality and impressive conception of the projects and their skillful structural implementation"-- Back cover