Cargo Maritime Village Concept for Grand Canal Basin

Tabnabs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiCX8OK8Ydw

Cargo Maritime Village in Dublin is both a response and solution to the economic downturn with its low cost, low risk ethos and will create new opportunities for local businesses say promoters. The idea is to turn old shipping containers into functioning spaces on short term leases providing incubator units for small marine related businnesses and should act as a catalyst to the wider community.

http://afloat.ie/port-news/dublin-bay-news/item/23356-cargo-maritime-village-concept-launched-in-dublin?utm_source=Ireland+Afloat&utm_campaign=c033a8ac03-AfloatEbulletin_Sept239_23_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_56cc7c153a-c033a8ac03-64313897

An interesting and quite a brave concept. I wonder will it ever see the light of day?

enda1

Sounds like boxpark in Shoreditch, London.
It's got potential, definitely needs a miox of food, drinks and retail elements though to keep passing trade going.

PaulieC

OT but still

sigh....everything that is built these days needs to have a food and drinks element for the ever expanding bovines of society. It's sad that people can't seem to go for more than an hour these days without having to buy a starbucks or some other takeout treat. No wonder we're heading towards obesity hell.

neris

the marine industry in ireland is a tiny industry with very specialist suppliers/services and over priced clothing. cant really see this lasting in the long term if it goes ahead

White Down

Environmentalism in much of the developed world and especially here seems to be reserved for images of green food production board Bia etc. and the image that we try to rightly portray to the world. But it largely remains a country side issue. Recycling, reusing and up cycling are something that the developing world can really teach us about. We forget that we in the city live in a very cumbersome, post industrialist world full of waste not only plastic and cardboard and petrol fumes but huge amounts of material waste which if we harnessed could drastically reduce the cost, time and logistics of bringing things in here that we already have here. That is why this project should be upheld as a wonderful example of a way we can all use what we already have to build an interesting, beautiful and effective future. It is an absolutely wonderful project and I for one would like to see much more of them across the country. This isn't a new concept simply google container buildings and we should all be surprised that we don't have more of these kind of buildings in this country.