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The Intermodal Container FAQ. Copyright © 1995-2007 Ernest H. Robl; all rights reserved. ( ehr@mindspring.com ) This document may be viewed, stored, or printed for personal use only , provided the following conditions are met: (1) It remains intact, with no changes other than for line-length formatting; (2) this copyright notice and all disclaimers at the end are included. This document (or any part thereof) may not be included in any publication, paper or electronic (including Web sites and CD ROM) products, without written permission of the author. Specifically, this document (or any part thereof) may not be reproduced on other Web sites. If you want visitors on your site to see this document, please provide a link to it. A westbound Union Pacific Railroad double-stack container train crosses the Keddie Wye trestle in the Feather River Canyon of northern California. PLEASE READ THIS: I am a photographer and writer specializing in transportation and travel subjects.

Last revised 2007/11/23 Minor editorial revisions. Container Housing Companies. One option if you want a container home is to buy a prefabricated unit from a container housing company. Why consider one of these outfits? They are worth considering if: you don't have enough time for such a big project; you don't have the necessary skills to build a cargo container building yourself; you want something more complex, designed by an architect, with many rooms and floors, contemporary finishes and interiors, modern and clean lines and maximum comfort. There are many finished and under construction projects all around the world that make use of containers for different purposes. Here you'll find links to several container building concerns that sell homes made from cargo containers. Addis Containers is a shipping container house design and construction company from New Zealand.

On the container home side, they reportedly have a 320 square foot home for around $40,000 available. 1. 2. Another company we're happy to see out there is Logical Homes. Two if by Sea: DIY Cargo Shipping Container Home on Stilts « Dornob. “One if by land, two if by sea” goes the poem of Paul Revere – but not in reference to a pair of sea-shipping containers radically converted into a single on-land dwelling. A local train yard and a few hundred dollars can buy you a few five-thousand-pound insulated metal boxes. And at that price, who would not be tempted to plan their new home around shipping container-sized units? Paul Stankey (and family) not only bought his structural materials on the cheap, but also used simple do-it-yourself processes to construct his cargo container house step by simple step – starting with pipes to leverage the containers off of the trailer attached to his truck.

After pouring simple concrete foundations, he and his partners used railroad ties, vehicular force and rounded pipes to roll the containers up and into place before welding them to the piers below. Modular Housing Components Designed for Containers; Plans, Roofs, Footings, Floors, Cladding, Pre-fab. Building a Container House bobvila.com - Steel shipping containers can be converted to strong, safe, comfortable and eco-friendly housing in just 90 days Converting Shipping Containers for Housing Bartlett Park Shipping Container Home bobvila.com - several videos, see "Playlist" containerbay Selected projects utilizing shipping containers. Amazing Homes and Offices Built from Shipping Containers HyBrid Architecture Residential Design, Unique Home Design, Fernwood Victoria B.C. Zigloo is a residential design studio in Fernwood Village, Victoria, BC, owned by Keith Dewey design | Building Green TV SG Blocks Container House - Made of Shipping Containers | Interior Design, Decorating, Furniture, Architecture, Home & House Design Magazine The largest conference and expo on green innovation, West Coast Green, just started off yesterday and we already have the scoop with a great house dedicated Shipping Container Homes by Container City | Prefabricated Modular Homes Containerist.com Container Houses.

Building with cargo containers. Future Shack. Kathy Tafel - KTainer. With partners, I own land in a remote part of California. It has wild beauty, and some need of environmental restoration. Our first years there were spent in basic infrastructure such as water and road. To be there on a more regular basis, though, we needed to not spend hours setting up and tearing down a tent each time we visited. My partners built a yurt. I am building a house framed by shipping containers. Challenge Create a livable structure that I make with mostly my labor, accomplishable in a remote location.

Considerations Waste Everything must be carried out or disposed of onsite. Erosion There is a winter stream 100 feet from the site. Atmosphere The temperature can go below freezing in winter and reach 115° in summer, with generally a 40-50° temperature swing during the day. Expansion I did not want to have a structure that I would outgrow and then need to upgrade. Time Money I did not want to spend more than you would on an RV, for two reasons. Thought Aesthetic Material Armageddon. Shipping container architecture - Wikipedia, the free encycloped.

A temporary bank branch built from shipping containers in Germany Shipping container architecture is a form of architecture using steel intermodal containers (shipping containers) as structural element, because of their inherent strength, wide availability and relatively low expense. Advantages[edit] Strength and durability Shipping containers are in many ways an ideal building material. Modular All shipping containers are made to standard measurements and as such they provide modular elements that can be combined into larger structures. Labor The welding and cutting of steel is considered to be specialized labor and can increase construction expenses, yet overall it is still lower than conventional construction. Transport Pre-fabricated modules can also be easily transported by ship, truck or rail, because they already conform to standard shipping sizes. Availability Used shipping containers are available across the globe. Expense Disadvantages[edit] Temperature Humidity Construction site Solvents.

SustainableSources.com: Shipping Container Housing « Shipping Container Housing. Shipping Container Homes - Home Design Software | Interior Design Software | Kitchen Design Software | CAD Software | House Plans Software | Landscape Software | 2D & 3D. Shipping Container Homes | By victor | Category: Samples and Demo Models The interest in converting old Shipping Containers into real world homes is exploding. Following a discussion with a Architect friend about the application of our Home Design Software to this design niche I was rather surprised by just how many people are researching and interested in Shipping Container Homes and Container House Design.

A few years ago we created an add on module for our Home Design Software for the task of visualization of Shipping Container Modules in the Built Environment, now I am more aware of just how many people are interested in this area I have decided to make those library modules into a public release of our Home Software. If you are interested in Shipping Container Design you might be interested in these two design resources that I came across in my research. The first is a book called Intermodal Shipping Container Small Steel Buildings which is quite mouth full but its a good resource. 8 eye-catching shipping container homes: A new kind of living. Interested in uplifting stories on the natural world, sustainable communities, simple food, and new thinking on how to live well? Please enter a valid email address and try again! No thanks. Cubic Inspirations- ISBU Shipping Container Designs and Plans. Cubic Inspirations- Exclusive from ISBU-Info.org is a permanent new weekly feature Our exclusive new Designs, Floor Plans, and Architectures that will inspire you to jump into the ISBU trend.

They will include various designs of prefabs, homes, cabins, apartments, offices, and, business pods. Realistic 1,2,3,4 and 5 bedroom designs you will be proud to buy, build, own, or sell and profit. The new ISBU trend that can put $$$ in the bank...._______________________________________________________________________________ Cubic Inspirations- Part 1: Decorating The Box The biggest complaint most people have with shipping container homes is that they look like shipping containers....

Over the next few days ISBU Association will show you how to make the transition from "rusty to respectable". As with any home it has a frame, an interior and an exterior. STEP 1- Choosing a good quality used shipping container that will soon become an ISBU module for your construction project. Welcome to Habinet: Architecture + Shipping Containers.

News - Clinics to Africa - 2003.0115. Clinics to Africa by ArchitectureWeek Although solving the global AIDS crisis may be beyond the scope of architecture, a young nonprofit has demonstrated that architects can apply their skills to help with this intractable humanitarian problem. It is estimated that three-quarters of the world's HIV/AIDS population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa, most without access to health care. One of the obstacles for medical professionals in Africa is lack of adequately equipped facilities within the vast continent. Architecture for Humanity has recently concluded a competition for the design of a fully equipped, mobile HIV/AIDS health clinic. Architects, designers, and medical professionals from 51 countries submitted 531 entries; of these, four winning projects were selected. The top-ranked project is by Mikkel Beedholm, Mads Mandrup Hansen, and Jan Søndergaard, of KHRAS Architects, from Virum, Denmark.

The third-Place award went to Heide Schuster and Wilfried Hofmann of Dortmund, Germany. Folder shipping containers. Cargotecture. The conversion of a 10-by-20-foot shipping container into an eco-friendly mid-town office is a fine example of workplace recycling. The corrugated steel container, near the corner of Spadina and St. Claire Ave. in Toronto, has been retrofitted with cool birch veneer interior walls, two built-in work stations, a large five-foot-square window, polished mahogany plywood flooring and a green roof with a patio, giving it the feel of a hip conversion space.

The project has won environmental kudos by minimizing the use of new materials such as lumber and siding. The container itself would have ultimately been shipped back to Asia, melted down and recycled, an energy-intensive process with high greenhouse gas emissions. “I think people are really drawn to the idea of reusing these containers because they see four walls, a floor, and a roof ready to go,” said Alex Bartlett, of Bsq. So what’s the appeal? Plus, they’re built to withstand just about anything.

Cost is another consideration. Container Housing. SEED is a Winners of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, People, Prosperity and the Planet Awards The award ceremony was hosted by the National Academy of Sciences. SEED is also featured by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Research. Check out the featured story! SEED on WYFF Channel 4 SEED is interviewed on WYFF Channel 4 News in response to the housing crises in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. SEED at IABR Opening of Parallel Cases tonight in Rotterdam as part of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam!

Container Housing Companies. Blog : Living Inside the Box: Creative Eco-Friendly Design Using Shipping Containers. Most of us have seen a tower of shipping containers at least once in our life. Throughout the US there are over 700,000 abandoned shipping containers. As the US moves away from being a manufacturing economy, we receive many more of these containers than we use to export goods, creating a surplus of containers that, well, don’t contain anything. Reusing them for importing more goods is inefficient, since it’s usually less expensive to manufacture a new container than to reuse an old one. Thus we are left with man-made mountains of empty steel boxes sitting in shipyards across the United States. As the world scrambles for ways to become greener, people are looking for ideas for recycling these old containers, and putting them to some good use. With the help of some creative entrepreneurs and architects, these cocoons of the industrial age are undergoing a metamorphosis into portable stores, emergency housing, and luxury homes.

Help in a Hurry: Disaster-Relief Container Homes for Japan. Abstract designs and architectural theory are well and good, but when the stuff hits the fan (or tsunami hits the land, as it were) these notions are put to the test in a very rapid and real way. The result shows who is ready to roll out workable housing solutions to address catastrophes as they unfold. The Ex-Container project is a joint effort to address the displaced populations following widespread earthquake and tsunami devastation still unfolding in Japan. Cheap, easy and fast, container homes provided an obvious answer. Containers are of a size that offer a flexible framework in terms of location, transportation and domestic application – they are versatile-but-stable enough to make for makeshift residences, semi-temporary homes or long-term dwellings (or hotel complexes) depending on demand.

Interestingly, in this case it was determined that using manufactured, container-framed units would be quicker, simpler and more cost-effective than reusing existing containers. 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. Years ago Kalkin shaved while delivering a lecture at the Whitney Museum.

For all his artsy provocations, Kalkin's strategy makes some practical sense. HyBrid Architecture. Container house Products. Help in a Hurry: Disaster-Relief Container Homes for Japan. Shipping Containers Show Promise for Living Space. Tempohousing, building with containers. Shipping container architecture. Dwellbox.com. Shipping container architecture. Shipping Container Home Designs. Portable Steel Storage & Shipping Containers FAQ.

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