Shipping container architecture is an architectural form that uses steel intermodal containers (shipping containers) as structural elements. This is also referred to as cargotecture , load portmanteau with architecture, or " arkitainer ".
The use of containers as building materials has increased in popularity over the past few years due to its inherent strength, wide availability, and relatively low cost. Houses have also been built with containers because they look more environmentally friendly than traditional building materials such as bricks and cement.
Many structures based on shipping containers have been built, and their use, size, location, and appearance vary widely.
When the futurist Stewart Brand needed a place to collect all the material he needed to write How to Build Learning , he converted a shipping container into an office space, and wrote the conversion process in the same book.
In 2006, Southern California architect Peter DeMaria designed the first two-tier container shipping house in the US as a structured system approved under the strict guidance of the nationally recognized Uniform Building Code (UBC). This house is Redondo Beach House and it inspires the creation of Logical Homes, a cargo container based on pre-fabricated home companies. In 2007, Logical Homes created their main project - Aegean, for an Electronic Computer Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Some architects, such as Adam Kalkin, have built original homes, using shipping containers disposed of for their parts or using them in their original form, or mixing them.
In 2000, the Urban Space Management company completed a project called Container City I in the Trinity Buoy Wharf area in London. The Company has proceeded to complete additional building-based container projects, with much more ongoing. In 2006, the Dutch company, Tempohousing, finished in Amsterdam, the largest container village in the world: 1,000 student homes from modified appliances containers from China.
In 2002, ISO standard shipping containers began to be modified and used as wastewater treatment plants in stand-alone locations. The use of containers creates a cost-effective, modular, and customizable solution for on-site wastewater treatment and eliminates the need for the construction of separate buildings into the home care system.
Brian McCarthy, an MBA student, saw many poor neighborhoods in Ciudad JuÃÆ'¡rez, Mexico during an MBA field trip in the 2000s. Since then he has developed a prototype shipping container housing for a typical maquiladora worker in Mexico.
Apps for Live Events & amp; Entertainment Industry: in 2010 German Architects and Production Designers Stefan Beese used six 40 'long shipping containers to create a large observation deck and VIP lounge area to replace the grand tribune scaffolding structure at Voodoo Music Experience, New Orleans. Containers are also smart performing double duties as storage space for other festival components throughout the year. The top two containers are cantilevered nine feet on each side creating two balconies which are the main viewing locations. There are also two bars located on the balcony. Each container is perforated with pieces that spell the word "VOODOO," which not only brings the structure but creates a different point of view and the opening of the service area. And since the aperture itself acts as a sign for the event, no additional material or energy is needed to create banners or posters.
In the UK, sand-filled container walls have been used as giant sacks to protect the risk of debris flying from the ceramic insulators that explode in an electrical substation.
In October 2013, Google's two barges with superstructures made from shipping containers received media attention speculating about their goals.
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Market
Empty shipping containers are commonly used as market stalls and warehouses in countries of the former Soviet Union.
The largest shopping center or organized market in Europe consists of alleys shaped by stacked containers, on 69 hectares (170 acres) of land, between the airport and the central part of Odessa, Ukraine. Informally named "Tolchok" and officially known as the Seventh-kilometer Market has 16,000 vendors and employs 1,200 security guards and maintenance workers.
In Central Asia, the Dordoy Bazaar in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, consists almost entirely of double-stacked containers, of comparable size. It's popular with travelers coming from Kazakhstan and Russia to take advantage of cheap prices and most knock-off designers.
In 2011, Cashel Mall in Christchurch, New Zealand reopened in a series of shipping containers several months after being destroyed in an earthquake that devastated the central business district of the city. Starbucks Coffee also builds stores using shipping containers.
Other uses
The shipping container has also been used as:
- Affordable housing
- Tap the box
- Emergency storm shelters for pure horse
- Concession standing
- Fire training facility
- Military training facility
- Emergency shelter
- School buildings
- Apartments and office buildings
- Artist Studio
- Shop
- Movable displays on rails
- Telco Hub
- Banks warehouse
- Medical clinic
- The radar station
- Shopping center
- Bedroom
- Recording studio
- Abstract art
- The transportable factory
- Modular data centers (eg Solar Modular Data Center, Portable Modular Data Center)
- Experimental lab
- Temporary hold of containment (ventilated)
- Bathroom
- Rain Showers
- Starbucks Stores (eg 6350 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL 60660 USA)
- Workshop
- Intermodal closed storage on boats, trucks, and trains
- Foundation homes in unstable seismic zone
- Elevator/staircase
- Block roads and keep the demonstrators away, because the photos are journaled during Long March Pakistan
- Hotels
- Construction trailer
- Mining site accommodation
- Exploration camp
- Aviation maintenance facility for United States Marine Corps when loaded onto SS Wright (T-AVB-3) or SS Curtiss (T-AVB-4)
- camping RV
- Food truck
- Hydroponics farm
- Battery storage unit
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For housing and other architectures
Containers in many ways are ideal building materials because they are strong, durable, stackable, cut, moveable, modular, plentiful and relatively inexpensive. Architects as well as lay people have used it to build many types of buildings such as homes, offices, apartments, schools, dormitories, artist studios and emergency shelters; they have also been used as a swimming pool. They are also used to provide temporary secure spaces at construction sites and other places on an "as is" basis rather than building shelters.
Phillip C. Clark filed for a US patent on November 23, 1987 described as "The method of converting one or more steel shipping containers into habitable buildings on the building site and its products". This patent was granted August 8, 1989 as patent 4854094. The patent documentation shows what may be the earliest recorded plan to build container homes and shelter shelters by laying out some very basic architectural concepts. Regardless, a patent may not represent a new invention at the time of filing. Paul Sawyers previously described the vast container shipping building used on the 1985 Space Rage Breakout film set at Prison Planet.
Other examples of previous container architectural concepts also exist such as the 1977 report entitled 'Shipping Container as a Structural System' investigating the feasibility of using twenty-foot shipping containers as a structural element by the US military.
During the 1991 Gulf War, containers saw many non-standard uses not only as temporary shelters but also for the transport of Iraqi prisoners of war. Holes are cut in containers to allow for ventilation. Containers continue to be used for military shelters, often also enriched by adding sandbags to side walls to protect against weapons such as rocket grenades ("RPG").
The relative abundance and generosity of these containers over the past decade stems from the deficit of manufactured goods originating in North America in the past two decades. These manufactured goods come to North America from Asia and, to a lesser extent, Europe, in containers that often have to be sent back empty, or "deadheads", at considerable cost. It is often cheaper to buy new containers in Asia than to send the old ones back. Therefore, new applications are searched for used containers that have achieved their North American destinations.
See also
- Container
- Modular building
- Prefabricated buildings
References
Further reading
- Books
- Kotnik, Jure (2008). Container Architecture. p.Ã, 240. ISBNÃ, 978-8496969223
- Sawyers, Paul (2005, 2008). Delivery of Small Steel Container Building Container. p 116. ISBN: 978-1438240329
- Bergmann, Buchmeier, Slawik, Tinney (2010). Container Atlas: A Practical Guide to a Container Architecture. p.Ã, 256. ISBNÃ, 978-3899552867
- Minguet, Josep Maria (2013). Sustainable Architecture: Containers2. p.Ã, 111. ISBNÃ, 978-8415829317
- Kramer, Sibylle (2014). Box Architecture Solutions with Containers. p.Ã, 182. ISBNÃ, 978-3037681732
- Broto, Carles (2015). Radical Container Architecture. p.Ã, 240. ISBNÃ, 978-8490540558
- Journal
- Broeze, Frank (2002). "The Globalization of the Oceans: Containers from the 1950s to the Present". International Journal of Maritime History . Canada: Association of International Maritime Economics History. 15 : 439-440. ISSN 0843-8714.
- Helsel, Sand (September-October 2001). "The Future Shack: Emergency prototype housing Sean Godsell exudes shipping containers everywhere". Australian Architecture . Retrieved 2007-10-13 .
- Myers, Steven Lee (May 19, 2006). "From the Soviet Flea Market to the Giant Monster Maket". The New York Times . Retrieved 2007-10-13 .
External links
- Video Construction Site Bob Vila
- 22 Contemporary Modern Shipping Houses All
- 25 Container Home Shipping & amp; Designed Structure With Urban Touch
- Delivery of a Convenient Container House Like an Ordinary Person
- Visiting City Containers photo & amp; essay
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