LOTTO TURM: Stuttgart’s Shipping Container Skyscraper
Posted By Bridgette Meinhold On March 16, 2009 @ 5:00 am In Architecture,Recycled Materials,Sustainable Building,Urban design | 1 Comment
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In the center of Stuttgart [5], Germany, lies an odd roundabout called Oesterreichischer Platz. Speeding traffic circles around it, and for the last 40 years no one has found much use for it, except as a parking lot. Now German designer Lars Behrendt [6] has conceived of an incredible tower for the unused site that is comprised of 55 shipping containers [7] stacked up like blocks [8]. The Lotto Turm [9] would function as a mixed-use development with a sphere at the top, which would be used to announce the city’s lotto numbers.
The Lotto Turm [9] tower will be constructed of 55 shipping containers [10] stacked on top of each other, and will be designed to include a noise-free courtyard as well as a spiral pathway that circles around the building. Balconies, terraces, and stairs accent the tower from top to bottom, giving the stacked block structure a fantastical quality, and Gardens [11] and plants will accentuate the varied vertical landscape. The public may enter and go all the way to the top of tower for a view of the city through the lotto sphere.
The tower may be used for office space and perhaps even residential apartments. One shipping container [12] will be used as a swimming pool, with a sunning deck right beside it. The description also suggests that local prostitutes may also find a home for themselves here at the Lotto Turm. It certainly is an intriguing building, and its uses and inhabitants are likely to be every bit as interesting.
+ Lars Behrendt [6]
Via DesignBoom [13]
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[5] Stuttgart: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/08/12/ventomobile-racer-by-inventus/
[6] Lars Behrendt: http://www.frohlocke.de
[7] shipping containers: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/03/06/prefab-friday-site-specific-thai-family/
[8] stacked up like blocks: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/11/06/sky-village-by-mvrdv-and-adept/
[9] Lotto Turm: http://www.lotto-turm.com/
[10] shipping containers: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/12/12/prefab-friday-greentainer-exposure-architects/
[11] Gardens: http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/03/02/chinatrust-headquarters-by-nbbj-architects/
[12] shipping container: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/10/03/demaria-shipping-container-house/
[13] DesignBoom: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/5711/lars-behrendt-lotto-turm.html
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