not another container project….

We hate container design. Containers provide terrible proportions for living in. Corb V2.0 takes well-designed apartments [rather than badly scaled containers] and uses modern infrastructure to deal with the areas where apartment blocks fail, ie; social hierarchy and lack of adaptability or responsiveness. Through the mobility afforded by shipping equipment, the utopian ideal is once more subverted back to a housing solution, which Corbusier dreamt of back in ‘23. Within Corb V2.0 spatial hierarchies, traditionally determined by wealth, and the implied status these evoke, are dissolved, real estate values become flattened and a new lifestyle alternative [already adopted in mobile technologies such as phones and laptops] begins to emerge in housing. The mobility that Corb V2.0 allows also gives the residents an unprecedented degree of control over their social environment; the programmable stacker establishes a feedback loop of user’s responses to density, orientation and height. This is fuzzy logic on a grand scale. Corbusier said that houses should be machines for living: we think that houses should be robots. Say hi to Corb V2.0.

Architect: andrew maynard architects Made in: Australia

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