LOT EK: APAP open school - construction

LOT EK: APAP open school - construction


APAP open school construction - aerial view
all images courtesy LOT EK



earlier this month we featured american firm LOT EK's design for the APAP open school, in korea.
here are some images of the construction process being built using 8 shipping containers.

at ground level, the footprint of the shipping container structure becomes a public amphitheater
taking advantage of the existing sloping topography. the amphitheater lower section connects
to the existing stairway and offers a viewpoint along the river edge. the upper section, reaching
a higher level, engages the large monitor of the open school for public viewing of the exhibition
content.



constructed with red beams



the staircase



building the second level



building the second level



building the second level
ridhika db
06.28.10  
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I'm very curious how wheelchair users will access this buiding
BL   06.28.10
Yep. Good point. My immediate response to the design and reuse of the boxes was... cool! But then
I read your comment and you are right. Access needs to be something that we make a part of our designs without being asked or told to. I hope at some point access will be taken into consideration by everyone without a second thought. Thanks.
rcvs1   06.28.10
I wonder how cost effective this approach is? I can't see it as a commerically replicable 'pre-fab' option since it appears that every container is needing to be changed in some way to fit the design - so would it not have been cheaper and more flexible just to use corrugated metal if that's the material they wanted to build the school from?
Call me a cynic (and many do) but it looks a bit 'deisgny for its own sake' to me.
Julie Mountain   06.30.10

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