Little Footprint Big Forest

King County, in Washington State, held a design competition — Little Footprint, Big Forest — to create an overnight structure from a surplus, reclaimed, 20-foot shipping container. The county has about 26,000 acres of parks and open spaces with trails, trees, and streams.

Hybrid Architecture was selected as the winning design for their REtain design. The winning design had to use salvaged and locally-sourced materials, be economically achievable, both for the county to build and maintain and for the public to use, and could be replicated across the entire park system.