(Out of) The Box

The purpose of this project is to retrofit a group of existing urban buildings in an echological and sustainable way to achieve the nZEB target through the grafting of new volumes. As the area of interest is characterized by a well established living population, the main challenge was to interfer as little as possible with the life of the community. For this reason a modular prefabricated plug-n-play technology was proposed. In order to maximize the transportable dimensions we opted for two units having the same sizes as the shipping containers (20’- 40’) that can be composed together in a plenty of solutions (on one or two floors) and, most of all, able to satisfy the needs of many types of possible users: families, couples or singles.