Showing posts with label Shipping Container Homes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shipping Container Homes. Show all posts
Tomball Blogger Suffers Major Fall
I fractured the C-4 and C-3. If I had fractured the C-2 I could have have died.. Thank you God for another chance,
Shipping Container Air Conditioning
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via My Shipping Container House by todd
Installed the outside unit of the ductless split unit for the apartment yesterday. It came from Ac World.
I also met with another spray foam contractor. I'm really looking forward to getting the insulation done since they keep telling me how big the difference will be.
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A Simple Container Home
via Green Building : Jetson Green by Preston Koerner on 8/19/09
There's something about the simple design of this small container home that I really like. It was mentioned on A Site-Specific Experiment, which is run by Chutayaves Sinthuphan out of Bangkok, Thailand. The one-bedroom, one bathroom home was built using two, 20-foot containers with cutouts for windows and doors. There's a prefab bathroom inside and the interior is insulated with a recycled content material.
Located in Thailand, the home features a roof layer that's raised above the home -- not unlike the roof design of the Ultimate Desert House or Cinco Camp. Seems like a great way to use passive ventilation to keep the inside of the home nice and cool.
Over the last few years, we've seen a trend towards using shipping containers in the construction of all sorts of structures. Our site runs an archive of noteworthy shipping container homes to keep you up-to-date on the latest -- make sure to check it out.
Photo credits: Blue Brown via A Site Specific Experiment.
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One of My Shipping Container Floor Plan
This is a project I have been working on for some time. I am planning to have single person houses for people that can't afford/or qualify for conventional housing.
Spray Foam for Container Homes
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via My Shipping Container House by todd on 8/8/09
Pro-Tight installed the spray foam this week. They started off covering everything that you wouldn't want foam on. It's not a big deal if it gets somewhere you don't want it. But covering outlets is easier than digging it out of all the boxes. The ingredients used to make the foam are heated as they are sprayed and give off that heat when they expand. It gets so hot the guys take turns spraying. They started spraying around 7:00 am and would switch out every 45 minutes. By noon they would only last about 10 minutes. While the insulation keeps out the heat of the sun bearing down on the roof. It also kept the heat in that was generated from the process of spraying the foam. The ventilation fan was the only way to get fresh air upstairs. While spray foam is relatively inert it has it's hazards while it is being sprayed. The vapor accumulated in the apartment and caused symptoms similar to getting the chemicals in my eyes. Those symptoms include "corneal opacity" or blurred vision. It reminds me of swimming in a chlorinated pool. It doesn't hurt and I didn't realize it was happening. It will go away in a few days. They normally don't spray in an area as air tight as the apartment. And it affected all of us. It is something that regular eye protection wouldn't protect you from. If you ever get the opportunity to watch the process make sure you wear goggles.
I'm getting bids to sheet rock this week. Also waiting on the local CO-OP to install the electricity. And I've got 1800 ft. of water line to trench. I'm still on schedule to get the air conditioner going just in time for it to start cooling off around here.
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Solar Tubes for Container Houses
Many people are converting Shipping Containers into Houses, for under $15,000. Jesse
via My Shipping Container House by todd on 7/22/09
Finished installing the solar tubes yesterday. Wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. They don't cover installing them in a flat roof with u-panels in the instructions. There is still a few more chances of rain this week for a leak test otherwise I'll go over everything with a garden hose before the insulation is installed.
As you can see this type of sky light allows in a lot of light. They are more efficient then "window" style sky lights since the surface area in contact with the outside is reduced. And hopefully this ends the questions about my lack of windows.
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Low Tech Texas Container Retreat
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via Green Building : Jetson Green by Preston Koerner on 7/22/09
In April 2009, this bold vacation cabin received a 2009 Residential Architect Design Award in the custom home under 3,500 square feet category. The NY Times may have noticed, because Kate Murphy also published a feature article about the home last week. Referred to as Camp Cinco, this low-tech retreat was designed by Mark T. Wellen of Rhotenberry Wellen Architects for owner Roger Black and constructed by placing five shipping containers on hand-dug piers. The design is simple and striking.
Camp Cinco spreads the typical home features into different containers. One unit is for storage, another has kitchen amenities, and the last three each have a bed and bathroom. The interiors are clean and minimalist -- just perfect for relaxing in the middle of nowhere -- and behind the cargo doors, each unit has sliding glass doors. That way, the monstrous Texas animals and insects stay outside while the occupants gaze at the passing horizon from the inside.
Similar to what we saw with the steel canopy on the Ultimate Desert House, the roofs on Camp Cinco provide both visual and cooling benefits. The roof will absorb a portion of the heat from the Texas sun (and shade the home, too) while some of the rest of the heat will be cooled by winds passing between the container and corrugated steel.
Residential Architect reports that the construction cost was about $202 per square foot, which at 800 square feet for the project, puts the overall construction (and not design or land) budget at roughly $161,600. Lastly, if you're interested in hearing the background story, I suggest you read the owner's own account of how things happened:
[+] No deposit, no return by Roger Black.
Photo credits: Hester + Hardaway, Rhotenberry Wellen Architects.
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Cinco Camp, Brewster County, Texas
Posted for information only with all rights belonging to Cheryl Weber
Custom / 3,500 square feet or less
2009 residential architect design awards
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Source: residential architect Magazine
Cinco Camp, Brewster County, Texas
Rhotenberry Wellen Architects
Midland, Texas
 Hester + Hardaway The rusted boxes rest lightly on hand-dug piers. Coplanar floating roofs shield inhabitants from the sun's heat. A rear window and swing-open double doors invite cross-ventilation through the MDF-wrapped interiors. |
Shipping container architecture is nothing new, but adapting the shells for living often undoes their built-in economy. With only minimal modifications, these serve as rugged guest cabins on a West Texas ranch. “We didn't want to leave a scar on that somewhat fragile landscape,” Mark T. Wellen, AIA, says of his solution. “If you disfigure the surface, the cacti and low shrubbery can take years to come back.”
The containers (one is for storage) were outfitted off site with a rear window and MDF floor, walls, and ceiling—almost like a cigar box. Then they were hauled in, two at a time, on an 18-wheeler and craned into place from the existing road.
Concrete footings for small piers were hand-poured, and floating roofs were popped on for shade. The jaunty roofs allow breezes to cool the units. “Most of our sun is overhead here, so they're largely in the shade,” Wellen says. When the containers are occupied, the big doors of each unit swing open and are strapped in place. Closed down, they're impervious to weather and wandering wildlife. What's more, they're a playful mirror image of the boxcars rolling by on distant tracks.
Down in the valley and 45 minutes from the closest town, the cabins are “a romantic and poetic folly. Great fun!” said a judge. “And it looks like it will last forever.”
principal in charge / project architect: Mark T. Wellen, AIA, Rhotenberry Wellen Architects
general contractor: Steve Ekstrom, Ekstrom Construction Co., Midland, Texas
project size: 800 square feet (combined)
site size: 3,500 acres
construction cost: $202 per square foot
photography: Hester + Hardaway.
Posted for information only with all rights belonging to Cheryl Weber
Shipping Container with Roll Up Door
www.metrocontainer.net is a great builder of containers. Anyway you want it configured.
The Ultimate Modern Desert House
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via Green Building : Jetson Green by Preston Koerner on 6/19/09
The July/August issue of Dwell brings us this beautiful desert home in Pioneertown, California (not too far from Three Junipers, actually). The home was designed by architect Lloyd Russell for Jim Austin, an entrepreneur who wanted something simple. The functional home of 1,600 square feet is what Austin calls, "the ultimate desert structure." It's built with recycled and durable materials, as well as a prominent steel canopy that shelters and shades the home.
In the desert, there's wind and sun, and the canopy is an obvious solution to use both elements to keep the temperature down inside the house. When the sun hits the canopy, some of that heat is reflected back into the sky while the rest is absorbed by the canopy. And since there's a wind buffer, the design creates a cooling mechanism to keep the house relatively shaded and cool.
Jim Austin's home sits on a ten-acre parcel of land called Rimrock Ranch. With a modest combination of windows, weathered steel, and concrete, it seems to suit the desert perfectly. The roll up garage-style door is a nice touch, too. These are showing up all over the place (see Logical Homes and Buzz Lofts).
[+] Operation Desert Shed by Dwell.
Photo credits: David Harrison; illustration: Dwell.
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Shipping Container Homes
Today we toured a business called Metro Containers in Brenham, Texas that converts Shipping Containers into any configurations the customer wants. I have study this process for a long time and this was the best workmanship I have seen.Check out our container blog www.texascontainerhomes.com
Stacked Shipping Containers
I saw these in Houston today. I'm not sure what they are planing but I will watch them Jesse
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