Jetson Green: Skinners Playground

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Philip, writer over at Jetson Green, writes:

The Skinners Playground project by Phooey Architects of Melbourne, Australia is a project that makes compelling use of shipping containers. Many container architecture projects do little that breaks out of the strong rectilinear form of the component boxes. While only four shipping containers were used for Skinners Playground, they are cut and amended in such as way as to make much more of them than simply four box-shaped rooms. Even if the exteriors had been painted over, it would be immediately obvious that this was built from shipping containers. But, at the same time, this is a case of the whole being far more than merely a sum of its parts.

Click here to read read the rest of this article [this is just an excerpt] over at Jetson Green.

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::article written by Philip Proefrock, writer for Jetson Green, a sustainable design blog founded by our ninja Preston – original article entitled Sophisticated Simplicity with Shipping Containers. These articles from Jetson Green on MNP’s Green Tuesdays are part of a feature you can find here every week – just click any Tuesday in the calender and enjoy! And for more ‘green’ news + info, head on over to Green.MNP::

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Posted: April 22nd, 2008
at 4:00am by orangemenace


Categories: architecture, green arch

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  1. Just why can’t *I* think of a name like “Phooey Architects” ?
    [mopes]

    sander

    22 Apr 08 at 11:36 am

     

  2. haha – right? They must’ve stayed up for days brainstorming that one…

    So Sander – what’s good over there at Mecanoo? Any cool news we can put up here at AMNP?

    orangemenace

    22 Apr 08 at 11:43 am

     


 

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