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Constrained Ball: Easy to Draw Straight Lines - The Resident Architect. Faucet that allows only 1 liter of water - Seoul Colors. 1ℓimit faucet doesn’t necessarily changes how we physically interact with faucets but will definitely impact our behavior and environmental awareness when using water. Designers Yonggu Do, Dohyung Kim & Sewon Oh realized that we use approximately 6 liters of water per second and came up with a much more environmentally friendly faucet design that allows the user to use only 1 liter of water before it is refilled. Although the water is refilled whenever the user closes the faucet, it still effectively transforms our behavior when spending water and creates environmental awareness by forcing this “1 limit”. via Yanko.
ETF Mining trucks & Haul Trains. Sunset Idea House: Hybrid Architecture's Yellow Shipping Container Home Shows Off Small Space Living. Hybrid Architecture has been working on a series of shipping container modular building systems, which they call Cargotecture®.
Relocatable, adaptable and compact, these modular homes can be used for backyard offices, guest rooms, extra living space or sustainable and smart housing. The units are completely built in a factory then easily transported via truck for a one day installation on site. For the 2011 Sunset Idea House, Hybrid Architecture built the c192 Nomad, which is a 192 sq ft space with a galley kitchen, bathroom, built in storage, flex space and room for beds. In this version of the Nomad, a pull out couch turns into a bed and a fold down wall unit becomes even more sleeping space. The bathroom is a glass-walled area with sleek modern Duravit fixtures. Large windows and doors open up onto a large deck, which extends the living space. . + Hybrid Architecture + Sunset Idea House at Celebration Weekend. Building with Shipping Containers. By Kelly Hart An idea whose time seems to have arrived is the use of stockpiled shipping containers as modular units for building homes.
Because of the balance of trade in the United States, these hefty steel boxes are piling up in ports around the country and posing a storage problem. Several architects and builders are taking advantage of this surplus to recycle the containers. According to David Cross of www.sgblocks.com, "a container has 8000 lbs of steel which takes 8000 kwh of energy to melt down and make new beams etc... DIY Design Community « Keywords: shipping_containers, containers. We've seen simple shipping container homes, but how about using multiples to construct complicated structures?
Keetwonen, pictured above is a 1,000 unit student housing complex. This cute polka-dot number is a weekend house located in Trebnje, Slovenia. Container City, by the Trinity Buoy Warf on the Thames is a well-known example of shipping-container architecture. At 85 feet high, the Freitag Shop located in Zurich is the tallest building made of 17 used shipping containers. If all these pics have you yearning to live in your very own shipping container, check out Ecopods. Tagged : shipping_containers, containers. Container Heads Rejoice A New Container Baby. Photographer: Jill Hunter Container Heads around the world, start rejoicing.
Yes, a new container house has been born and it’s a Texan. The developers (Numen) and family are calling it the Cordell House and here is what they have to say about their new baby. Developer -The Cordell House is the result of a 2-year design discussion between the builders and the designers. It was conceived as an exercise in efficient building, with the most expensive aspects of the house – the structural elements and mechanical core – being partially prefabricated in a shop environment.
Before I the let developer babble on with traditional boring speak about this new container baby, I would just like to say, this thing is sexy. Would You Live in a Shipping Container? Adam Kalkin isn't the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers.
A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek, began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction against the tidy white surfaces of modernism. But nobody has employed shipping containers more inventively than Kalkin, a New Jersey architect and artist who has used them to design luxurious homes, museum additions, and refugee housing. In architectural circles, Kalkin is regarded as something of an oddball. He began his talk at the Urban Center in New York Tuesday night by playing the first five minutes of a Jerry Lewis movie, followed by the actor's acceptance speech at the Academy Awards last month. His website includes lessons on hitting a tennis forehand and a selection of songs to sing after taking antidepressants. For all his artsy provocations, Kalkin's strategy makes some practical sense. "Quik Build" arrives as modernist prefab has begun to lose its bargain appeal after years of hype.
Awesome Shipping Container Shops to Pop Up on the Asbury Park Boardwalk in NJ. Asbury Park, NJ will become home to four awesome new pop-up shipping container shops this summer.
Designed by Madison Marquette, the containers were salvaged from a shipyard and painted to fit in with the boardwalk‘s other bright and colorful stores. The versatile containers are 100% recycled and are sure to add to the Jersey Shore’s goals of becoming a low carbon footprint destination. ContainerLiving.net – shipping container homes.