Puma City: Container Retail by Lot-Ek
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 12. 4.08
photos by Danny Bright
Nobody does shipping container architecture like Lot-ek, one of the originals. They have designed a demountable retail space for Puma, with "with large double heights as well as with 4-container-wide open spaces to challenge the modular box-quality of the container inner space; offices, press area and storage occupy the second level and a bar, lounge and event space with a large open terrace is at the top."
Love that cantilever! I wouldn't think you could do that.
"The building uses 40-foot long shipping containers as well as a number of the existing container connectors to join and secure containers both horizontally and vertically. Each module is designed to ship as conventional cargo container through a system of structural covering panels that fully seals all of its large openings to be removed on site to re-connect the large, open interior spaces."
Plug n' play...
"Puma City is a truly experimental building that takes full advantage of the global shipping network already in place. At 11,000 square feet of space, it is the first container building of its scale to be truly mobile, designed to respond to all of the architectural challenges of a building of its kind, including international building code, dramatic climate changes, plug-in electrical and HVAC systems and ease of assembly and operations.”
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i like the design..
Pretty cool, they could easily construct prefab housing in urban areas or even cheap offices for startup businesses.
The potential for military personnel housing vice barracks is unlimited, especially wth use of the TEU (Twenty Equivalent Units) size vice FEU (Forty Equivalent Unit) size. And, with the container ships readily available worldwide, the standard cramped troop ships will be a thing of the past. The TEU size military perosnnel quarters can be loaded onto any container ship, with minor hook-up to black water, grey water and white water containers. Some container ships carry upward of 5,000 FEU sized containers. In addition, as troop levels change at military posts, such containers can be readily shipped around to wherever needed. Plus, they can be stockpiled at any military base for use for civil disasters.
Great design, i love LOT-EK designs. In Spanish http://pepegrillo.com/2008/12/19/puma-store-construida-con-materiales-reciclados/