Container Observatory – The Best Place for First Date!

Shipping containers can be converted into various kinds of buildings ranging from homes to hotels. They can also be fit into their surrounding environment. A sunset observatory in South Korea’s Incheon makes a good example.

A Korean company named  AnL Studio, has created “Ocean Scope”, an observatory for enjoying the sunset and admiring the horizon in a romantic setting. The structure is built on five shipping containers that are placed on different heights. The containers are also placed on 10, 30, 50 degree angles offering visitors different points-of-view. The containers are equipped with staircases.

In South Korea, many shipping containers are used as temporary shelters in rural areas. The containers do their purpose as shelters but still, they are not harmonized with the surrounding nature. Ocean Scope is one of those examples that show how container architecture can build a dialogue with nature.

Fitting container buildings into their surroundings is a relatively easy task. Due to their simple steel structure, container houses are mainly modified by cutting and welding that are not really labour-intensive operations. Incheon’s observatory’s stair design and the positioning of containers show what can be done with welding and cutting.

Shipping containers are designed to hold heavy weight only on their four corner pillars so excess weight on them might be very damaging. Therefore, roofing is always a challenge with container buildings. Our article on containers shelters describes one roofing solution, but the observatory shows how it can be done more conveniently. The containers are put on different angles allowing rainwater and snow pour down from them. How smart!

Shipping containers are a durable material and today’s main component for affordable and sustainable architecture. We in Shanghai Metal Corporation sell this super construction material internationally. To learn more about our containers, please visit our website. Possible inquiries can be submitted through this link. Please visit our social media sites.

Tuomas P. // SMC Editor

Pictures and original articles: Inhabitat, Dezeen

    

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Have You Played These Cool Games?

When you need a good getaway from your busy and hectic daily life, stepping in to a game arcade can be an excellent choice. There are some weird, funny and cool games out there that can let you relieve stress, at least for a short session. Here are some of them.

The 1995 classic Jackie Chan: Fists of Fire (ジャッキー・チェン FISTS OF FIRE 成龍伝説)is a Mortal Kombat style beat-em-up game in which the player has to win a series of fights with  AI controlled character. The player choose his avatar from various options, including three versions of Jackie Chan.

In Hatoful Boyfriend: A School of Hope and White Wings (はーとふる彼氏〜希望の学園と白い翼) the player plays as a female bird that tries to find a suitable boyfriend from a school of birds. The game is a basic dating simulator with a difference that it uses doves, pigeons etc. birds as protagonists making the game one of the weirdest in its genre.

For multiplaying purposes, aka the games to play with your friends or colleagues, air hockey games are a must. The Japanese game company Sega has developed a futuristic air hockey simulator that displays moving digital images on the hockey table. Despite the localization in English, Heat Up Hockey can only be found in Japan.

If you are really sick of your supervisor bossing you around, you might want to play Sonic Blast Heroes. It is a punching simulator in which the player literally punches everything on his way. The game comes with a boxing glove and a pad that rises out the cabinet to let you know that it is punching time. By playing it you also do physical exercise and develop your physique.

Some game machine structures are made of Galvanized Steel Coil. In Shanghai Metal Corporation we also offer Multicolored Prepainted Galvanized Steel Coil that is excellent for building game and vending machines. To know more about our products, please visit our website. Please also follow on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. You can also try our new mobile application by scanning the QR code below.

 

 

Tuomas P. // SMC Editor

Sources: Toplessrobot.com, Cracked.com, Wikipedia

Pictures: Youtube