Would You Live In A Shipping Container? | Cannell | Fast Compan 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. "Adam continues to be subversive, and subvert what architecture is supposed to be," design historian Alastair Gordon said by way of introduction in the panel discussion that followed Kalkin's presentation. For all his artsy provocations, Kalkin's strategy makes some practical sense.
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. The result is an extremely high surplus of empty shipping containers that are just waiting to become a home, office, apartment, school, dormitory, studio, emergency shelter, and everything else. 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.
Container Bay 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
James & Mau Architecture BUILDING YOUR SHIPPING CONTAINER HOME. Action It. Building a house is no small feet. Even a small one. I. Finish construction documents for your shipping container home and submit to building authority for permitting. Submit construction documents to factory for pricing and engineering of container modules. Clarifications to building authority and factory as required . Get required permits from building authority. Submittal of construction documents to general and sub contractors. Execute purchase order of container modules from factory. II. Site Work Begin grading work including any required excavation for foundation, utilities, storm water management, and septic.Bring required utilities to site.Install septic system and any storm water management system if required. Foundation The foundation shown below is a typical slab on grade application for a 1000sf (three 40' containers) shipping container home design. Container Modifications Shipping containers have monocoque bodies. Set and Secure Containers to Foundation and Each Other III.
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 upper floor is the heart of the home. The zigloo.ca studio is very pleased to announce the completion of Plans for the ECO-CARGO CargoSpace Living container home. 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... Each container measures 8 feet wide by 40 feet long by 9 feet tall. According to KPFF Consulting, a structural engineering firm in St. As for their energy efficiency, they claim that when the appropriate coatings are installed, the envelope reflects about 95 percent of outside radiation, resists the loss of interior heat, provides an excellent air infiltration barrier and does not allow water to migrate in.
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
Seed - container housing clemson university caribbean 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. 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!
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 :
ArkHaus 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. While it's certainly cheaper, this isn't just some exercise in odd-looking green building, but an honest attempt to create stylish homes out of the ubiquitous steel boxes. ? ? ? ?