Building With Cargo Containers

Building With Cargo Containers

In the beginning of the recession, shipping containers began stacking up on American shores. Architects saw an opportunity to recycle these relatively cheap building materials into homes and other living spaces. In Providence, R.I., designers have Syracuse, N.Y. — A 39-unit apartment building that was to be built in Syracuse with steel shipping containers will instead to built with traditional materials. Scott Smith, one of the developers behind the project at 712-714 E. Fayette St., said Tuesday Price is a fervent, sometimes hyperbolic-sounding evangelist for container architecture. He calls shipping containers “the best thing since the brick,” because the visit The Washington Post Magazine. Follow the Magazine on Twitter. On November 23, 1987, Phillip C. Clark file for a United States patent describe as a “Method for converting one or more steel shipping containers into a habitable building at a building site and the product thereof.” This patent was granted on August 8 The Crook County Planning Commission will discuss implementing codes regarding use of cargo containers for storage and building at its next meeting 6 p.m., June 24 at Crook County Meeting Room, 320 NE Court St., Prineville. From remodeled buses to tiny More than 21,000 shipping containers arrive in the United States on a daily basis. Many of them originate in China, where it is cheaper to build new containers than to ship them back after their maiden voyages. Currently, over 700,000 containers are .

Washington D.C. recently got it’s first piece of residential shipping container architecture in the form of a Brookland apartment building. The project was the brainchild of DC-based architect Travis Price and his partner Kelly Davies, who did the work An architect says the trend of buildings made of shipping containers structure built of container's is the Atira Housing's 12-unit structure on Alexander Street that provides social housing for women. Atira claims the building cost less than Some shipping container home builders are extending their efforts into the backyard recreation realm as well and sinking a container in the ground, building a deck around it, and using it as a swimming pool. While the metal containers may seem like great Although the look appeals to the industrial-chic crowd, shipping containers might be more valuable as an introduction to modular architecture rather than a building material suitable for widespread use, said Alice Kimm, a partner at architecture firm JFAK .

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