Puma City by LOT-EK is an 11,000 square foot store consisting of 24 shipping containers. Puma City is designed to be easily disassembled for transportation. The store is currently on tour around the world.
Us here at Sinking Cities are in awe of the huge cantilever LOT-EK was able to pull off. At first look you would presume necessity for a heavy foundation – and a structure that is able to be disassembled would be out of the question.
“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.”
“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.”
Good work LOT-EK for making shipping container buildings interesting and visually stunning!
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This is an amazing project. Very simple, yet stunning… especially for shipping container work. I like how it doesn’t try to mask the fact that it is made out of containers like Jennifer Segal and some other “shipping container” architects do. Keep up the good work LOT-EK!
I agree – amazing project. Every aspect is perfect – the details, the connections, the scale, the graphics… brilliant.
I loved the concept and chose to use this as an example of a recent design that has adapted well. In my assignment, I am supposed to get an idea of what this costs. Does anyone have a clue?