Cool Cool Seaside is a pavilion made from three raised shipping containers, which provides shelter for two basketball courts in a square near the docks of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
The structure designed by Atelier Let's, along with works to the surrounding square, was commissioned by the city's Urban Projects Bureau to "revitalise" the square bordered on one edge by Gushan ferry pier and by a run of shops on the other.
Called Cool Cool Seaside, the pavilion is made from three containers, raised off the ground on steel beams, with sides that fold outwards to become canopies for a seating area beneath.

The site was already home to two basketball courts and an area of concrete seating, which the new structure seeks to unify and make more welcoming for residents and tourists alike. "If you take some time to get around to it, you will discover a local neighbourhood situated between the buildings and and pier-side", said the architecture studio,
"Thanks to the Urban Projects Bureau, this neighbourhood is once again being introduced to the public by means of a revitalisation."

The three shipping containers, a reference to the site's past as a colonial Japanese railyard, were disassembled and reduced to their steel skeletons before being reinforced, repainted and reconstructed.
Thin steel bars support the sides of the containers, which cantilever at either narrow end and are supported by slim columns along the longer edges.

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