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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

1800 used shipping container as architects backyard office

$1800 used shipping container as architects' backyard office

Shipping containers are built to carry huge loads and the refrigerated units are very efficient at climate control. So it’s unsurprising that when they’re retired from the sea, they’re being used as the building blocks for homes and offices.

“You can put 60,000 pounds in them and then stack them 8 high and then put them on a ship,” explains architect Karl Wanaselja. “They're incredibly strong so they're way stronger than a house ever needs to be so in earthquake country they're a good building block”.

Given their strength they work well in earthquake country. In Berkeley, California Wanaselja and his business partner and wife Cate Leger created their home-office using a shipping container. It cost just $1800.

"The Port of Oakland has hundreds of these things left over. What happens is after they've been around the world I don't know how many times they get dinged up and get holes in them and sometimes they get dropped and there's a certain number of patches they're allowed to have before they no longer meet the international shipping standard and so when they're at that point they get retired and then sold off.”

Wanaselja and Leger cut their 40 foot long refrigerated unit in half and placed it in a T shape in their backyard (with the help of a crane). They didn’t need to add any insulation: they’re designed to not have any thermal bridging between the interior and exterior and the polyisocyanurate insulation (a plastic, but it came with the container) has the highest R-value of any foam insulation.

Using a sawzall (reciprocating saw), the couple cut huge windows into the aluminum/stainless steel structure. Wanaselja says he was initially intimidated by the idea of crafting out of aluminum (the exterior material) and stainless steel (interior), but “once I got over my learning curve I actually like working with metal”.

In this video, the couple talk about working in a cargo container, using materials like the soy-based plywood floor (Purebond) and the music made by rain and branches on a metal roof.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Poteet Architects Container Guest House

The Container Guest House is the first of several projects by Poteet Architects we will be featuring. As a national award-winning firm, Poteet Architects is best known for their sensitive adaptive reuse of existing buildings and a fresh, rigorous approach to modern interior design. This project originated from client’s wish to experiment with shipping containers.
http://www.archdaily.com/127570/container-guest-house-poteet-architects/

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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Crossbox by CG Architects Pont Péan France Shipping Container Home

Crossbox by CG Architects - Pont Péan, France - Shipping Container Home

Crossbox a house is composed of two container clad, laid crosswise to form a door overhang upstairs. Achievement signed by the Air architectural firm CG Architects .
Made from 4 x forty foot shipping containers

http://www.cgarchitectes.fr/
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Friday, October 21, 2016

28 Shipping Container Home 4d and a architects New Jerusalem Children’s Home Johannesburg South Africa

28 Shipping Container Home, - 4d and a architects, New Jerusalem Children’s Home, - Johannesburg, South Africa,

4D and A Architects have been working with New Jerusalem to initiate a range of new housing volumes with accommodation for twelve children and one housemother per abode, and two houses sharing communal kitchen, dining, lounge and laundry facilities. After considering various alternatives, it was decided that the most lucrative approach was to utilise recycled shipping containers to construct these residential dwellings as the cost was estimated at R1.5million (€145,000) - 25% of the traditional brick and mortar home.

Photos by Dennis Guichard

http://www.newjerusalemchildrenshome.org.za/
http://4da.co.za/
http://www.dennisguichard.com
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Architects Small Connecticut Home

When Connecticut architect Duo Dickinson and his wife were starting out 30 years ago, he designed and had this beautiful small home built. The budget was limited, the site presented numerous challenges, but the solution is unique and impressive.

The home is located in one of Connecticut's most charming small shoreline towns, and has a very nice view of a salt marsh. Being located so close to a near shore wetland area, codes dictated that living spaces needed to be elevated ten feet above grade. This presented an opportunity to create a car port under the house while at the same time saving a little money on the foundation itself.

Overall, the house has about 1,100 square feet of modest yet elegant living space. It features one bedroom, one bathroom, a two story living and dining area that opens onto a deck, a home office, a small but functional kitchen, and covered parking below.

The two story living and dining room features a fireplace and an unusual indoor bay window that brightens the upstairs hallway while offering views outside and to the interior space below.

Detailed floor plans appear below. Thanks Duo!

First floor plan

Second floor plan

Check out Duo Dickinson's website via the following link...
http://www.duodickinson.com/Index.html

Also see his interesting blog, Saved by Design, with this link...
http://savedbydesign.wordpress.com/

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