Like many young boys, Taufic Gashaan spent long hours playing with Lego and creating imaginative structures.
“I haven’t changed much,” laughs the Guadalajara-born architect whose “adult Lego fix” comprises transforming those rectangular shipping containers you see piled high in ports into spectacular homes, office spaces, restaurants and hotels.
Gashaan has already built eight homes in Guadalajara using shipping containers as the base building block and has patented other designs, including a two-bed, two-bath apartment/home that he says would be “ideal for retirees looking to settle in the Lake Chapala area.”
Container architecture is nothing new – the first patent was filed in 1987 – and designers all around the world are doing amazing things with them, but the genre is still developing in Mexico.
“The idiosyncrasy of Mexico is that people believe buildings have to be constructed with specific materials, usually brick, because that’s the way it’s always been done,” Gashaan says.
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