Architects in South Korea have been creating all kinds of uses for the humble shipping container and examples of cutting edge uses for the steel structures can be seen in the country’s newest plaza.
South Korea’s architects are no strangers to putting old shipping containers to good use and designing a whole range of useful structures. Seoul is the latest city to embrace shipping containers and turn them into examples of sustainable design and exhibition spaces.
Over the years architects and designers in South Korea have been reinventing shipping containers for the purposes of anything from animal shelters to high end shopping units. Just like in several other countries, shipping containers are used to create intriguing new spaces in city centres.
International architects have recently joined in the fun. A Dutch company has designed an array of structures aimed at reinterpreting shipping containers for use as exhibition spaces.
The shipping containers will be a feature of Seoul’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), a futuristic complex built by the architect Zaha Hadid.
The Dongdaemun Design Plaza is the main attraction in the Dongdaemun district of the capital. It is also one of the city’s main tourist attractions and centres of fashion where the best dressed people in Seoul hang out.