The idea of using recycled shipping containers is becoming a growing trend as the crates are strong, efficient and inexpensive materials. We’ve featured a few cargo projects in the past for retail designs like LOT-EK’s Puma City, office spaces such as the first in Seattle by HyBrid Architecture + Assembly, plus the artist residences for Pier 57 in New York, all featured previously on AD. Now, the use of containers has spread to the education sector as Scabal has completed a sports hall for Dunraven secondary school in Streatham, London. Working with a limited budget and the pressing demand of the clients to produce a “new building of architectural distinction”, Scabal decided that using shipping containers would fulfill both requests.
More about the sports hall after the break.
In a mere three days, the containers for the three sides of the Dunraven hall were stacked high, providing a full height gym for the athletes.. The fourth side, the one that addresses the main road is composed of a wall of translucent polycarbonate. A roof spans on steel trusses to cover the inner athletic hall.
