A new hospitality and entertainment sophisticated, The Pitch, in Austin, Texas, puts to use 23 repurposed shipping and delivery containers with a variety of configurations and features.
Mark Odom Studio, an Austin-based mostly architecture agency, built this 1st-of-its-form hub as element of a big sports venue and leisure advanced, for Austin FC soccer followers and the local community. The .2-ha (.5-acre) web-site is a place for hospitality, retail, food stuff, office environment, and out of doors gatherings, hosted in flexible two-tale transport containers.
The advanced contains containers of two typical modular dimensions: 2.44 by 6.1 m (8 by 20 ft) and 2.44 by 12.2 m (8 by 40 ft). They are stacked to make two stories and then clustered into 5 separate creating pods with varying surface area locations, to operate differently for the buyers even though developing a dense visible and bodily working experience and view onto the landscape.
The floor-degree containers provide as foods and beverage outlets for local vendors. The 2nd-level containers are multifunctional as viewing decks, inside-conditioned accumulating areas, personal office environment spaces, and rooms for private events or Austin FC watching events. Personalized stairs, vertical tube steel railings, and overhead trellises had been meticulously made and executed to tie with each other just about every stage. Three 12.2-m-tall containers were placed on conclude to serve as wayfinding nodes from afar, whilst operating as restroom services and electrical rooms at ground amount. Every has inside vertical viewpoint views to a skylight earlier mentioned.
A mass timber pavilion with tailor made metal apertures further more anchors the software involving the Austin FC practice stadium and The Pitch. The the moment-flat web-site was heavily landscaped to assist the containers nestle and take in the grade modifications. As each individual pod was curated differently, the working experience and sights also entice people to stroll all-around and explore.
To realize the amount of execution desired on this undertaking, Mark Odom Studio labored intently with structural engineer Leap Constructions, builder Citadel Development Solutions, and fabricator Makehaus Structure and Fabrication Studio. Bay & Associates, Inc. served as the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineer, Falcon Structures was the container specialist, LandDey Consulting was the civil engineer, and TBG Companions was the landscape architect. Moreover, Mark Odom Studio handled the exterior and interior end alternatives, as perfectly as household furniture selections and installation.
“We approached this project as a collaborative team effort, and the complexity necessary all disciplines to issue-remedy with each other, from feasibility schematics via construction,” suggests Mark Odom, founding principal of Mark Odom Studio. “Each making pod is structured and stacked in a different way, while they all use the exact same customized detailing, materials, and color. This lets the concentration on the genuine sort of each container to be dependable.”