The ContainR Project

A Catalyst Community for the Arts, Education and the Environment

Mission

The ContainR Project is a pilot project intended to provide affordable sustainable spaces for use by artists and cultural organizations, using recycled

shipping containers as building components.

Hi-Top Shipping Container 8ft x 9.5ft x 40 ft4 tons

The Basic Building Block

Other sizes8ft x 8ft x 40ft8ft x 8ft x 20ft 8ft x 8ft x 10ft

The ContainR Pavilion

ContainR - Building Solutions

Artistic Advancement

• This temporary facility will complement Arts Court, enhancing its programming and providing much needed educational, exhibition, performance and meeting space to its tenants and the local community

• The second floor will be designed as a model Artists-in-Residence suite

ContainR - Building Solutions

Educational Opportunities

• In addition to being a destination site for school environmental curriculum, the Pavilion will involve engineering, architecture and design faculties at post-secondary institutions and trade schools

• The project will contribute to the discourse on and practical applications of alternative building designs

ContainR - Building Solutions

Environmental Efficiency

• This “green” project will utilize innovative, environmentally responsible building techniques, materials and systems

• The shipping containers as main building components will be indicative of the recycling focus of the entire project

Container Buildings

• In the last decade globalization has provided us with one of the most exciting and accessible building blocks. North American trade deficits have created an excess of used shipping containers that, until now, served no function.

• Every year, 10 per cent of the world's 65 million steel shipping containers are taken out of circulation and earmarked for recycling.

Container Buildings

• In recent years, shipping containers have been used to create temporary, emergency and disaster housing in Africa and Jamaica. Containers have become schools in Scotland and California. The steel structures are used as artists’ studios and galleries in Europe. In South Africa a hostel was built from the metal boxes, and a traveling exhibition in the U.S. is housed in a container-built museum.

• This project presents Ottawa with the opportunity to build its own creative landmark.

Montreal

Seoul, South Korea

12 Container House: Brooklin, MaineAdam Kalkin, architect

www.architectureandhygiene.com

• GAD is a mobile gallery for contemporary art consisting of ten containers, located in Oslo Norway.

Victoria, BC

Keith Dewey - architect and client (Zigloo.ca)

During construction

Finished

Interior

Redondo Beach Residence

DeMaria Design Associates Inc.

Student Housing in Amsterdam

Container City

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London/UKArtists Live/Work Space

The ContainR Pavilion Ottawa

ContainR Pavilion

60 Waller Site

ContainR - Site Specific• 60 Waller - zoned with a cultural designation, is our

preferred site• Will highlight and complement programs and activities

at Arts Court• Expands the existing creative cluster• Emphasis placed on a building with human scale, with

tremendous visual impact• Low interference during construction• Retains existing parking• Retains a significant amount of perimeter vegetation• Establishes new green spaces and gardens• Will be a tourist destination• Project transferable to sites in other neighbourhoods• Adaptable to rural/suburban and urban areas

From Pavilion to Arts Community!

ContainR featuring The Art Box

Performance HallDaly at Waller

ContainR Project

View to the east from Arts CourtFeaturing Artists’ Live/Work Spaces

ContainR

View to the west from Waller St.

Café

Artist rendering

ArtBox

ArtBox Interior

NOW is our opportunity to change Ottawa’s cultural

landscape!