Children’s Activity Centre Melbourne, Shipping Container Prefab Building Photos, Victoria Design Project, Architect
Australian Children’s Activity Centre
Playground: Shipping Container Building Melbourne design by Phooey Architects, Australia
12 Aug 2008
Design: Phooey Architects
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Photos: Peter Bennetts Photography
Children’s Activity Centre Australia
Melbourne Shipping Container Building
Innovative project utilising these basic transport containers.
Catherine Slessor in the Architectural Review:
“Here they turn to abandoned shipping containers to create an activity centre for children. Though containers have now become a familiar staple of re-appropriation for all sorts of things, PHOOEY put them to energetic use, stacking them, slicing them, and cutting them to create a thoroughly durable and dignified assemblage that rejoices in the colorful bricolage of its origins.
A variety of types of indoor and outdoor spaces are created from the simple expedient of stacking and staggering a couple of containers.
All materials were scavenged, salvaged or recycled. Container walls were simply cut up to form awnings and balustrades and their surfaces left unpainted, so the original superscale graphics are still visible, albeit now gloriously cannibalised.”
Excerpt from Slessor, C (2007), ‘Remake, Remodel’, The Architectural Review, December, pp 82-83.
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Children’s Activity Centre Melbourne images / information from Phooey Architects
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PHOOEY Architects is an enthusiastic and progressive design practice specialising in sustainable architecture & interior design. Many PHOOEY projects have received prestigious awards and world-wide publication. We place great emphasis on listening to and working closely with our clients to achieve their project aims.
Peter has more than twenty five years of architectural experience on major building projects ranging from high-rise towers in Ho Chi Minh City & New York; opera houses in Cardiff Bay; multi-residential apartments in Melbourne and Spittelau; houses & beach houses in Melbourne and London, not only in his current role, but also while previously employed by renowned international design practices including Zaha Hadid in London, Denton Corker Marshall in Hong Kong & Gregory Burgess, Peter Corrigan & Nonda Katsalidis in Melbourne.
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