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.
The Basic Building Block
Hi-Top Shipping Container
8ft x 9.5ft x 40 ft
4 tons
Other sizes
8ft x 8ft x 40ft
8ft 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, Maine
Adam Kalkin, architect
www.architectureandhygiene.com
• GAD is a mobile
gallery for
contemporary art
consisting of ten
containers, located
in Oslo Norway.
Victoria, BC
Finished
During
construction
Interior
Keith Dewey - architect and client (Zigloo.ca)
Redondo Beach Residence
DeMaria Design Associates Inc.
Student Housing in
Amsterdam
Container City
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Artists Live/Work Space
London/UK
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 Hall
Daly at Waller
ContainR Project
View to the east from Arts Court
Featuring 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!