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Design: David Mach, Dixon Jones
Renders: Assembly Studios
Containers: 36
Area: 3500 sq ft
Year: 2019
British artist David Mach has designed his first shipping container building called "Mach 1", consisting entirely of 30 shipping containers. The piece will be key to the new planned development of Edinburgh Park. Designed in collaboration with architect Dixon Jones, the shipping container building does not follow the modular, linear approach that this type of structure normally lends itself to. Instead, its sculptural form is intended to draw attention to the new neighborhood, especially those traveling by train.
A multipurpose shipping container building planned to house the marketing part of the development, Mach 1 will include a large exhibition space, gallery and cafeteria, to provide the flexibility to host events at various scales. To fulfill its marketing function, the shipping container building is slated to display a full site model, detailed building parts, illustrations, and informational displays on the southern phase of construction of Edinburgh Park itself.
Edinburgh Park is slated to be a 17-acre urban neighborhood west of the city - the largest development currently underway in the region. Designed by Dixon Jones, the project follows previous successful collaboration with Parabola at the award-winning Kings Place venture at Kings Cross.
The park is currently in the planning phase, with the "Mach 1" shipping container building itself submitted for approval. The first phase of the work will include high-quality offices, a new public square, sports and leisure facilities, a health center, shops, bars and restaurants.
The development also includes a strong public art component, supporting two residences for emerging writers and photographers, as well as offering outreach opportunities with local schools. Mach 1 is an emblematic shipping container building that represents the artistic focus of development, comments the founder and president of Parabola, Peter Millican:
"Its unique installation blends perfectly with Parabola's ambition to create a bold and exciting neighborhood that combines exemplary design and innovation to offer a new place in the city rich in art and culture, with world-class public spaces, scenery and facilities . "
Known for his large-scale collages, sculptures, and dynamic installations, often using everyday elements, David Mach describes himself as an "accidental architect" when it comes to the "Mach 1" project:
"There is quite a dramatic way in the shipping container building, it is not a regular piece of architecture. It will be something that will really show. It is a building that makes a statement about itself."
Drawings/Floor plans
About David Mach
David Mach is one of the UK’s most successful and respected artists, known for his dynamic and imaginative large scale collages, sculptures and installations using diverse media, including coat hangers, matches, magazines and many other materials. The Scotsman describes his work as ‘big on gesture and big in proportion, it demands your attention and gets it’. Mach’s first solo exhibition was held at the Lisson Gallery, London in 1982. His international reputation was quickly established and he has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around the world including London, New York, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Hakone, Tel Aviv and Warsaw. Public commissions include the tumbling telephone boxes, “Out of Order” in Kingston, “Train” in Darlington; “Big Heids”, visible from the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh; “It Takes Two”, sited North of Paris and in Marseille, Likeness Guaranteed commissioned by McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, and most recently, “Giants” in Vinadio, Italy and “Phantom”, commissioned by Morrisons supermarket for the Promenade in Kirkcaldy, Fife. Born in 1956 in Fife, David Mach attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art where he chose to specialise in sculpture because he thought it was the most demanding, intellectually and physically. Following a postgraduate year, Mach won a scholarship to attend Art College in Warsaw. As Martial Law had been declared in Poland, he was unable to take up his place but instead was invited to do his MA at the Royal College of Art. Mach became a part-time lecturer in the Sculpture School, Kingston University from 1982 to 1986 and was a lecturer at the Contemporary Art Summer School, Kitakyushu, Japan from 1987 to 1991. In 1988 he was nominated for the Turner Prize and four years later won Glasgow’s Lord Provost Prize. He became a Royal Academician in 1998. In 2000 he was appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Dundee in 2002. In 2003 his “Arm’s Length” sculpture of a woman made in coat hangers won The Jack Goldhill Award for sculpture at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In 2004 he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy and the same year, the University of Dundee appointed him Professor of Inspiration and Discovery. From 2006-2010 he became a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. In 2011 Mach was awarded the Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award for his exhibition “Precious Light”, a daring contemporary interpretation of the King James Bible in the form of large-scale collage and sculpture. The same year, he also won the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for Art. David Mach currently works from his studio based in London.
| Address | 8 Havelock Walk, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3HG, UK | |
| Phone | +44 20 8699 7984 | |
| karen.murat@davidmach.com | ||
| Website | https://www.davidmach.com/ |
About Dixon Jones
Through our involvement in a wide range of work Dixon Jones has established collective experience of different project types, scales, clients and methods of procurement. Each commission is developed in response to the particular context and client requirements, from the private house to complex mixed use developments and masterplans.
We have a particular interest in the civic contribution that buildings make to the city; the potential to connect internal and external public space and define new routes. Many of the projects are places for the arts, education and music or residential and commercial buildings in sensitive urban sites and existing listed buildings.
| Address | 2-3 Hanover Yard, Islington, London N1 8YA, United Kingdom | |
| Phone | +44 20 7483 8888 | |
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| Website | http://www.dixonjones.co.uk/ |
About Assembly Studios
We create interactive experiences for the built environment.
With studios in London and the UAE, our work spans branding, design, digital, cgi and film.
London, United Kingdom
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| Address | Warehouse, Unit 5 Rum Cl, Pennington St, St Katharine's & Wapping, London E1W 2AP, United Kingdom | |
| Phone | +44 20 7017 1789 | |
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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| Address | twofour54, Park Rotana Office 904E, Khalifa Park P.O. Box 77836 Abu Dhabi, UAE | |
| Phone | +971 2 245 0021 | |
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Multipurpose Shipping Container Building/Installation - Exhibition, Gallery, Cafeteria, Edinburgh, UK