recycled containers
recycled containers
Single-family custom home, using recycled ISO freight containers.
Container architecture is growing - the basic structures and provide a simple solution for the environment and creating room for competition seems to be emerging use of the structures of potential best. The container-home is one of the most recent of using this technique, using 8 cargo containers in different legth. By adopting its humble beginnings to end the stylish, WAN find it worthy of the state House of the week. Christian Kienapfel discuss Redondo Beach Container Home in the broader context …
Redeployed containers are a critical element of transport infrastructure to facilitate global trade and ongoing trade imbalance with; million containers in ports remain around the U.S.. Combined with technology from neighboring aerospace industry, containers have been brought together to build a traditional stick-frame to create a hybrid of origin. Using materials and methods to other industries, non-residential construction related to is architect of his philosophical approach.
Airplane hangar doors open family court room where a cargo container underground swimming pool is located. Recycled containers, ceramic-based insulation (the same that is used on NASA’s Space Shuttle), prefabricated roof panels of metal, multi-skin acrylic sheets employed on greenhouses, plywood formaldehyde free, less-hot water tank , Heaters, etc. all add up to a house that is innovative, affordable and environment.
Accessibility of the system building, in addition to the containers being practically Mold proof, termite proof, fire proof and nearly indestructible, will enable the mass of society to realize the dream of creating a quality custom home to a affordable price. Study methodology of Frank Lloyd Wright’s textile Block houses, Andy Warhol’s prints, or McDonald’s Hamburgers, and you’ll find that it is simply Architect reinterpreting and re-presenting the best of these processes in a different medium. This project is the torchbearer for a new, more accessible method of design and construction - architecture as a product.
