Paving the market trend on container eco-friendly home.
A trend setter.
Settling with architecture experience doesn’t goes well with
Port25; the company that showcased Villa Kontena at the recent Camping in the
City event held a Lanai Matic, Jalan Ampang.
Hungry for challenge and craving for green building
excellence, Port25 aimed to create a different in Malaysia tourism industry.
Understanding the concern that hoteliers have, the pain that small time
guesthouses encountered and coupled with the travellers need of a decent and
affordable accommodation during ones journey, makes Port25 craft Villa Kontena.
Villa Kontena is an affordable accommodation that focuses on necessity and
carbon footprint while meeting demand-supply from both parties; hotel and
guesthouse owners and guest.
Villa Kontena is not a typical container home like what we
see trending now in Malaysia, Villa Kontena is a realization and vision of
Port25, where it minimizes the reconstruction of the shipping container while
leveraging on existing space, at the same time, providing the guest with
experience of staying in a eco-like hotel. Embarking in container hotel helped
to recycled more than 3000kg worth of steel, not only that, it also contributes
in saving the building materials such as mortar, bricks, wood and etc. Aside,
it’s fast construction helped to save cost from both the contractor and the
hotel/guesthouse owners.
For each recycled shipping container we are reusing around
3,500kg worth of steel. We are also saving all of the traditional building
materials (such as bricks, mortar and wood) which don’t need to be used.
Whilst you could argue that melting down the shipping
container and recasting the steel into something else is more environmentally
friendly, you would be wrong. Recasting steel requires an incredible amount of
energy and it isn’t financially viable- this is why there are so many abandoned
shipping containers in the world.
Embarking in yet another great project in Perak, Port25 is
set to pave their path in this wondrous state, starting with container villa, equipped with base necessity and
eco-friendly built ups, giving guest and travellers alike a pure sense of being
and surrounded by nature, yet still feel comfortable and secured.
Background
PORT25, being the acronym for People Of Remarkable Talent,
is a design collaborative based in Malaysia. With the aim to forge broader
inter-disciplinary creative collaborations, PORT commune was created by
repurposing an old factory/warehouse into a space where like-minded creative
types would gather and share discourses or exhibits.
Aside from building container home, Port25 also specialises
in Architecture Design, Urban Design/Intervention, Interior Design, Furniture
Design and Exhibition Installation.
Port25
Studio A, No.3, Jalan 51/201
Seksyen 51
Petaling Jaya
Selangor
Tel : 03-7781 2228
This #CaraCamp Camping in the City event is with supported
by #MITA and #NBQS in collaboration with #MaTiC (venue)
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