Container House

– Johannesburg –

3 x 6m shipping containers are set into juxtaposition with intermediate glass links to form a one bedroomed cottage and music studio. All components were prefabricated and craned into position in this suburban Johannesburg street. The glass links not only break the limits of tight container space, they provide light injections between zones which extend and complicate spatial experience. As is often the case with my buildings, the exterior is experiences as a ‘part’ of the interior. The whole hovers over a new garage and workshop space, makes a completely new entrance to the main house, and lives up over the street in the trees.