Working with Harvest Moon Development and digital design and fabrication firm Metalab, ttweak has helped conceive and design two repurposed 20’shipping containers for use as a sales office and showroom for a proposed LEED-certified condominium complex in Houston, Texas.

These containers are powered by a 10-panel Photo Voltaic array on a proprietary, scalable, custom rack system. The offices are fronted by a glass and aluminum storefront, and connected by a modular Ipe decking system with removable guardrails.

The finished sales office and showroom function not only architecturally, but as iconic, large scale marketing vehicles. The sides of the containers are used to support marketing and sales information panels, and the containers themselves - especially the striking solar panel array - serve as powerful signifiers of an aesthetic that is not only sensitive to the environment, but sophisticated and elegant as well.