06. Case Study: How Grove Studios Is Turning Shipping Containers Into Movable Creative Pods
Here's a glimpse at what you'll learn from us in this episode:
How Grove Studios is creating affordable places for artists to work.
Why container lend themselves to cost efficiency on these units.
What it really takes to create a 24/7 service using technology.
Our BEST practices for permitting a movable unit.
Why shipping containers are a great material for sound control.
How you can create your own GrovePod.
Breck's project highlight of the the week: Grove Studios!
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Find the full show notes from today's episode here.
Learn more about Grove Studios:
https://grovestudios.space/
To learn more about designing & building with shipping containers, check out these supplemental episodes:
1) Best Advice for Beginner Developers: How to Start & How Much It Will Cost
2) Cargo Architecture 101: What You NEED to Know About Building with Shipping Containers
“We are musicians passionate about providing quality spaces for people to get their work done."
-Rick Coughlin (Co-Founder & CVO of Grove Studios)
Show Notes:
0:18 - Introduction into Episode 6.
1:08 - Breck's project highlight of the the week: Grove Studios!
3:23 - Rick Coughlin introduces the vision of Grove Studios, and how it utilizes shipping containers.
6:00 - Creating an affordable place for artists to work.
8:00 - The Grove Studios and Three Squared, Inc. partnership.
8:31 - How they use technology to create a 24/7 service.
11:18 - How Grove can benefit a diverse background of content creators.
14:03 - Breck gives insight into what the Grove Pod is, and how we handle permitting for a movable unit.
15:29 - What comes out of Three Squared backing The GrovePod.
17:38 - Why we built a music studio out of Shipping Containers.
17:51 - How three years of research turned into what Grove Studios is today.
18:40 - Why shipping containers are a good material for sound control.
20:35 - Three Squared's process that turns shipping containers into a GrovePod.
21:30 - Movability of The Gove Pod.
22: 28 - The cost efficiency of using shipping containers to build GrovePods.
24:30 - Plans of launching The GrovePod in Detroit.
24:50 - The security benefits of The GrovePod.
27:40 - To know what is going on at the current Grove Studios space you can check them it out here!
27:44 - Interested in building your own GrovePod? Contact the Three Squared Team to get started!
28:55 - Concluding thoughts for Episode 6.
Want to know more about some topics discussed in this episode? Our first two podcast episodes may be interesting to you!