Mark Odom Studio, the Austin based award winning architecture firm, designed Austin’s exciting new hospitality and entertainment complex, The Pitch, using shipping containers. The first-of-its-kind design in Austin is made up of 23 repurposed containers.
Architecture firm
Mark Odom Studios
Location
Austin, Texas, USA
Interior design
Mark Odom Studio
Civil engineer
LandDev Consulting
Structural engineer
Leap Structures
Environmental & MEP
Bay & Associates, Inc.
Visualization
MAQE Rendering
Construction
Citadel Development Services, Austin Commercial
Client
Karlin Real Estate
Typology
Hospitality Architecture
There are many different ways you can repurpose a Shipping container, with one of the most popular ways being to create a workshop space. Containers can serve as a sturdy foundation for fabric shelters, making them ideal workspaces due to their robust and resilient construction designed to endure extreme conditions.
Sharjah-based manufacturing company TransTech has donated a 40-foot shipping container to the College of Architecture, Art and Design (CAAD) at American University of Sharjah (AUS) as part of a design-build initiative that will see the container transformed into a mobile classroom with the potential to benefit remote communities within the next two...
Over the past few years, there has been a growing trend of people choosing to live in container homes, made out of shipping containers. The rising popularity of the ‘tiny house’ movement means that there is plenty of inspiration out there for making the most of limited space, and they are usually cheaper and faster to build than traditional homes.
Portable cabin is a year-round living space made of two adapted shipping containers. Investors are a couple of brave people who have contact with temporary architecture and are interested in searching for interesting and difficult to adapt spaces.
Project name
Portable Cabin
Architecture firm
wiercinski-studio
Principal architect
Adam Wiercinski
Design team
Adam Wiercinski
Interior design
wiercinski-studio
Visualization
wiercinski-studio
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Adobe Photoshop
Material
Containers, plywood, steel
Typology
Residential › House, Cabin
Building a shipping container home can be a fun and rewarding experience. With a little bit of planning and some help from experts, you can create a stylish and functional home that will serve you well for years to come.
