Jure is known for his work with container architecture, having written books on the subject and is currently curating a container architecture exhibition that is in Seattle at the moment. it started in Ljubljana before making a stop in Berlin this past summer, where PLATOON BOOTCAMP session hosted the exhibition in our own container recruiting office.
Jure advocates for responsible architecture, that is, architecture that takes into account the social and environmental obligation designers and builders have to constructing offices, houses, temporary structures and museums. the latest container project is the new shopping mall in London, where it's head architect Roger Wade was attracted to the symbolism in containers. from there came 'BOXPARK', the world's first ever pop-up shopping mall.
"but what often gets overlooked are the 'embodied' carbon emissions -- all the carbon released into the atmosphere when the building materials were manufactured in the first place," [Anna Surgenori, senior technical adviser at the UK's Green Building Council] adds.
she points out that the Angel Building in London saved 7400 tones of embodied CO2 - approximately 13 years of operational energy usage - by simply recycling the existing structure of the site's pervious building.
it's about time that container architecture becomes more common. we kind of agree with Jure when he says he's surprised it's taken as long as it has for container architecture. we've embraced the style for years now, as you probably noticed...
