Experimental Building Puma City

Posted by admin on October 8, 2010 Architecture Design

The Puma City Shipping Container Retail designed by Lot-Ek is a truly experimental building that takes full advantage of the global Prefab Shipping Container Retail network already in place. Puma City project location around the world (Alicante, Spain + Boston, MA + Stockholm, Sweden and etc). 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. The building is fully dismountable and travels on a cargo ship along with the sail boats; it will be assembled and dissambled a number of times once it reaches the different international harbors.

24 shiping container are retrofitted and transformed into Puma City, a transportable retail and event building that is traveling around the world along with the 70-foot long Puma sailing boat – il Mostro – during the one-year long 2008 Volvo Ocean Race, just started in Alicante, Spain in early October. 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 Flexible Container Retail

Puma City retrofitted and transformed

Puma City Pretty Unconstrained

Puma City conventional cargo container

Puma City structural covering panels

Puma City along with the sail boats

Puma City designed a demountable retail space

Puma City fully dismountable and travels