The Pros and Cons of Cargo Container Architecture With the green premise growing in popularity across the globe, more and more people are turning to cargo container structures for green alternatives. There are countless numbers of empty, unused shipping containers around the world just sitting on shipping docks taking up space. The reason for this is that it’s too expensive for a country to ship empty containers back to their origin. In most cases, it’s just cheaper to buy new containers from Asia. On November 23, 1987, Phillip C. In 2006, Southern California architect Peter DeMaria, designed the first two-story shipping container home in the U.S. as an approved structural system under the strict guidelines of the nationally recognized Uniform Building Code. Shipping container architecture gets a lot of encouraging coverage in the design world as a trendy green alternative to traditional building materials, and seems like a smart choice for people looking for eco-consciousness.
James & Mau Architecture Eco-Cargo container home. | Zigloo The Eco-Cargo is a healthy, simple, efficient design ideal for urban in-fill, back lane subdivisions and multi-dwelling building lots. The entire Eco-Cargo design is 800sqft over two floors. A single 40′ shipping container makes up a lower floor which features a convertible lounge/den space, foyer, bedroom and bathroom. This simple and efficient space also accommodates the mechanical and laundry areas hidden under the stairs. Staggering the 40′ shipping containers allows for more room in the upper floor area. The zigloo.ca studio is very pleased to announce the completion of Plans for the ECO-CARGO CargoSpace Living container home.
Shipping-Container-Architecture Information Repository Copyright © 2012-2014 by Zack Smith. All rights reserved. Introduction This is a webpage devoted to listing as many examples of people creating tiny houses or adapting to life in micro apartments as I can find, in the hope that it might embolden people to follow suit and embrace a more minimalist, less consumeristic lifestyle. This is mainly a links page, and I cannot guarantee anything at all about the sites that I am offering links to, but I try to periodically search for and add links that are fresh and to thereby offer something useful and interesting. For the former page about shipping container-based architecture, click here. The List Tiny Houses A tiny house is roughly defined as being less than 750 square feet (70 square meters), or 500 square feet (45 sq. m) depending on whom you ask. Micro-Apartments Microapartments are often about 300 square feet, or 28 square meters. Contact
containerbay There is growing interest in the use of shipping containers as the basis for habitable structures. These "icons of globalization" are relatively inexpensive, structurally sound and in abundant supply. Although, in raw form, containers are dark windowless boxes (which might place them at odds with some of the tenets of modernist design...) they can be highly customizable modular elements of a larger structure. The projects below are sorted alphabetically (by company or designer's name). Selected projects utilizing shipping containers. Info credits: Zack Smith, Kevin Tze King Ho. Back to top of page Useful linksIf you have any relevant links let us know Container Sources Shipping containers are widely available - here are just a few of the many sources: Allied Container Products Antioch, California Seabox East Riverton, New Jersey Factory Containers Direct - Inventory available in multiple locations- see web site. Technical Resources Books
Corrugated Steel Shipping Containers Do Double Duty As Housing - Architecture Thursday, July 28, 2011, by Rob Bear <div class="gallery-container"><div class="gallery"><a href=" src=" border="0" /></a><br /><a href=" style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;">Click here to view the full photogallery.</a></div></div> Creative architects have latched on to the idea of recycling steel shipping containers to save on construction costs. ? ? ? ? · Container guest house [Poteet Architects] · Container studio [MB Architecture] · Redondo Beach House [De Maria Design] · Lot-Ek Architects [official site] · Keetwonen [TempoHousing] Transit City Vers des villes containers ? Après avoir été le support de nombreux projets architecturaux dans les années 60, les containers font aujourd'hui un retour en force dans les réflexions sur la ville et l'habitat. Simple effet de mode ? Pas sûr... L'habitat mobile et modulable n'est pas une nouveauté. Plug-in city Il faudra attendre les années 60, et la créativité du groupe Archigram pour que renaisse l'intérêt pour ce type d'habitat modulable et nomade. La tour-capsule Nakagin Et c'est au Japon qu'apparaîtront les premières réalisations d'habitat modulable, sous l'impulsion des Métabolistes. Bublex, Partners et LOT/EK De nouveau, l'habitat modulable disparaissait... avant de faire un vrai retour en force ces derniers mois. Vers une Algeco's city ? Alors, simple vision d'artiste déconnecté des réalités ? Voilà, en effet, une entreprise qui, après s'être constituée en 1955 sur le créneau de la location de containers et de wagons, est devenue spécialiste de la construction modulaire. Notes :
How to Brown Bag Walls - the Bonnye Manning technique by Bonnye Manning It was an amazing year in 2002 for BrownBagWalls. As a professional installer, I had been doing some torn-paper effects here and there...mostly, the brown builder paper which has been on decorating shows and around for awhile. Tearing up paper and applying it to the wall isn't something I invented. As a matter of fact, the French did so many years ago and made papier-mache very popular. In January 2002, timing and luck placed me in a restaurant that was in dire need of some wall work. I noticed it, talked to the 79-year-old owner, who just happened to be walking the grounds with his CEO who is also his daughter. Ten restaurants later, I have done the effect on the restaurants' cedar beams, cedar walls, multi-spec painted drywall, cement block, paneling, Formica, and texture. Great advertising for the restaurant and me. I have learned so much in the last year about sharing this information with people. I want to thank Drawtite@aol.com for the Draw-Tite. p.p.s.
Slideshow Paper Grocery Bags, Elmers Glue, Rit Dye & Polyurethane = Fabulous Floor! You're Kidding, Right? As you know, I'm participating in www.lovelycraftyhome.com's "Get Your Crap Together Party". I've been frantically working on remodeling my woman cave/craft area. Although this room is not large, the project is taking much longer than I anticipated. Anyway, the floor was AWFUL in this area. I forgot to take a before shot but the first thing I had to do was to remove the old tile. Look what I found! Here is the floor with all the tile removed. The instructions at Lovely Crafty Home talk about applying stain to your papered floor (once the glue is dry before you apply your polyurethane) with a light hand. Anyway, I chatted with my husband about the tar issue and I decided to try out the paper bag treatment in a small corner of the room (glued & polyurethaned). 1. brush glue/water mixture onto the floor 2. lay your paper onto the gluey floor and smooth flat 3. brush on a coat of glue/water mixture on top of the paper. We had to finish preparing the floor. 1 bottle of liquid Rit dye Scissors 4you
Brown Paper Packages… ********If you are new to my paper floors, please read this first********** tied up with string… Brown craft paper is quickly climbing up the ladder as one of my favorite things- and you know how I love my drop cloth. But I just can’t believe the versatility of this also-banned-to-the-painting-aisle material. Seriously, is there a club for people like me? It all started with my desire to get rid of the carpet in our house. Ridding the house of carpet was becoming more and more of a pipe dream until I picked up an issue of Cottages and Bungalows and saw this: Image courtesy of An Oregon Cottage Jami from An Oregon Cottage had been featured in the magazine for her unique floor treatment using brown craft paper. It’s pretty bad, I know. I think it’s safe to say that it couldn’t really get any worse. I started by painting the risers white, then gathered my supplies for the paper bagging: Begin by tearing pieces of brown paper. Mix up a bowl of glue using a 3:1 ratio (3C water to 1C glue).
Brown bag wall treatment This is so painfully easy (and cheap) that even *I* could do it. We moved into a house with hideous warped mismatched fake wood paneling. All the paint in the world wouldn't help with this place and we didn't have a lot of money to spend so I found a cheap alternative. For under $100 I "renovated" the walls in my living room and dining room. It took me 3 days to do both rooms and that was taking my time and making very little mess. You will find many sites with fancy instructions on how to do this, I'm gonna cut to the chase and give you the "cheap and effective" method. Materials needed: Rolls of crafting paper (how many depends on how much wall you have to cover) * The living room was done in brown paper much like paper bags, while the dining room was done in rose paper. Wallpaper paste * A 3 gallon bucket cost right around $25 Paint roller tray * Makes the whole act of pasting the paper much easier Step-by-step: Ok, here's where it gets fun. BEFORE (yucky)