Cruise Ship Terminal, port of Séville

Location: Séville, Spain

Design: Hombre de Piedra and Buró4

Photo: © Jesús Granada

Proving that the use of shipping containers in architecture is about practicality as well as style, is this ferry port at the Muelle de las Delicias, designed by Hombre de Piedra and Buró4. The brief for the project asked for a design that would be flexible, extendable, easily removable and even movable, and shipping containers proved to be the perfect building blocks.

Photo: © Jesús Granada

The project had to be constructed at breakneck speed - the on-site construction work could only last 15 days, the maximum time between two consecutive cruises docking, The modular construction with recycled shipping containers was be mostly completed in a workshop and then each container was slotted together on-site.

Photo: © Jesús Granada