Container Camera
2025 // CONCEPT DEVELOPED FOR KAOHSIUNG [TW]
Concept for how to turn a 20-foot shipping container into a multi lensed camera obscura.
Container Camera reaches out to the city of Kaohsiung. A fragmented map of Kaohsiung’s harbor area, on top of which the container camera stands in the center. From it three triangles extends, showing the areas that will be visible from within the container camera.
A digital drawing of the plan, around it are the six views that will be visible inside the container camera, based on the estimated location at the site. The views will be overlapped and mixed through the different lenses.
The long and cross-section of the Container Camera, showing people inside experiencing and interacting with the multiple exposed projections. Above the drawings are two images showing samples of what the multiple exposed images could look like as stills. The actual images inside the Contain Camea will first of all be moving like a film, but is also light mixing, which digital tools can not fully simulate. The image in the Container Camera will be both ephemeral and tangible. And if the audience touches the screens, they will move both in space and time.
Elevations of the four exterior sides. The exterior is anticipated to be left as found. The only change is seeing the wood parts cut through the walls holding the lenses, which will entice the audience to find out more.
The interior is a mixture of contemporary, clean-cut wood elements and the raw container walls, allowing for both the rough and refined to coexist.
Exploded diagram of the Contain Camera showing the simple elements it contains.
Exterior rendering of the Container Camera at the site, showing a person in a wheelchair up the entrance ramp, photographing the diagram and narrative mounted on a wooden board explaining what the space is like. A woman is approaching, and three children are running up from behind the Container Camera; maybe they have just posed for different lenses to make a unique multiple combined portrait, photographed by a parent inside the Container Camera.
A diagram showing how the audience is able to change the focal length, by adding or removing a lens mounted to a hinged board, to the lens fixed on the wall.