Puma City
Designed by Lot-Ek, Twenty-four shipping containers are retro fitted and transformed into PUMA CITY, a transportable retail and event building that is travelling around the world to some of the stopovers of the Volvo Ocean Race 2008 - 2009. The building is fully dismountable and travels on a cargo ship and can be assembled and disassembled once it reaches the different international harbours. 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 a conventional cargo container through a system of structural covering panels that fully seal all of its large openings, to be removed on site to re-connect the large, open interior spaces.
The building is conceived as a three level stack of containers, shifted to create internal outdoor spaces, large overhangs and terraces. The stack is branded with a matt white version of the logo which has been fragmented as a result of the stack shift and the interior is branded with over 60 decals courtesy of Grapefruit Graphics.
Puma City is comprised of two full retail spaces on the lower levels, both 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.
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.
Check out all of our PUMA Ocean Racing projects here: Puma Case Study