建筑事务所LOT-EK在南非约翰内斯堡设计了一座模块化住宅楼Drivelines Studios，使用了140个回收集装箱。 它位于Maboneng，这是近期正面临城市转型和更新的一个区域，它响应了后种族隔离一代通过新的城市生活模式重建城市中心的愿望。
New York and Naples-based architecture firm LOT-EK has designed “Drivelines Studios”, a modular residential building in Johannesburg, South Africa, using 140 upcycled shipping containers. Located in Maboneng, an area of recent urban transformation and renewal, it responds to the post-apartheid generation’s desire to repopulate the city’s downtown through new models of urban living.
建筑采用了场地的三角形几何形状，两个独立的住宅单元在地块狭窄的东端铰接，形成了开放的室内庭院的社会空间。建筑物外立面与地块线齐平，内庭院的立面通过楼梯、电梯塔和连接所有楼层的桥梁连接起来，通过开放的流通路径，由单元扩展到户外空间。
Embracing the triangular geometry of the site, the building is conceived as a billboard where two separate volumes of residential units are hinged at the narrow east end of the lot, framing the social space of the open interior courtyard. As in a billboard, the building outer facades are straight and flush with the lot line while the facades in the inner courtyard are articulated by the staircases, the elevator tower and the bridges connecting all levels, and by the open circulation paths activated by the units spillover onto their outdoor space.
建筑采用模块化设计，由140个回收的集装箱组成。集装箱的颜色不涂漆，可用性决定了最终的建筑颜色。它们在现场堆叠和切割，并组合形成单元。从每个集装箱长边的转角到中心，一个大的对角切割器为街道和庭院侧的单元创造了大窗户。它的重复和镜像产生了建筑立面模式。
The building is modular and made of 140 upcycled shipping containers. Containers have been selected by colors to be left unpainted, with availability dictating the ultimate building color. They were stacked and cut on site, and combined to form the units. A large diagonal cut-out, from the corner to the center of each container long side, generates the large windows for the units on street and courtyard sides. Its repetition and mirroring generate the building façade pattern.
住宅区位于后方，沿着阿尔贝蒂娜西苏鲁路的是零售区以及居民的私人庭院和一个游泳池。住宅层有6层，所有的开放式公寓面积在300平方英尺到600平方英尺之间。所有的单元都包括一个室外空间，面向庭院的人行道。
The ground level is occupied by residential at the rear, retail along the Albertina Sisulu Road, and the private courtyard for the residents with planted areas and a pool. The 6 levels above are occupied by the residential units, all open plan studios varying in size between 300sqft and 600sqft. All units include an outdoor space along the courtyard facing walkways.
完整项目信息
项目名称：DRIVELINES STUDIOS
项目位置：约翰内斯堡Maboneng
项目类型：住宅和零售建筑
设计时间：2014
完成时间：2017.11
结构：Asakheni
电气：VBK
管道：Abbink Consulting
消防：Drofnets Engineering
设计：LOT-EK
摄影：Dave Southwood
