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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Container Architecture

Container Architecture

designed by takanobu kishimoto of japanese practice container design, this two storey dwelling in yamaguchi has been conceived as an extension of the client’s adjacent family home. the structure, which is situated on a busy road, serves as a barrier to Architects think inside the box at an expansive new exhibit in Düsseldorf. Turn a corner nowadays, and you'll find a building made out of shipping containers. So it was probably inevitable that architects would take this symbol of a "globalized, mobile Shipping containers are the same all over the globe. According to the World Shipping Council, there are 17 million of them in circulation and due to international trade imbalances, more than half these containers never make it back to their point of origin. Adam Kalkin isn't the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers. A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek, began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction against the tidy white surfaces of modernism. But nobody has The idea of turning cargo containers into homes has graduated from cool to uber-cool. How do we know? Well, there now are knockoffs of them, in China. Yes, that's more than a bit strange. Today we'll look at a number of cargo-container conversions, plus a They are always 8 feet tall and 8 feet wide and 20 or 40 feet long. Millions carry the cargo that keeps the economy going. Millions more are scattered across the globe, unused. Shipping containers symbolize our quest to buy things and the excess and waste .

Samuel Halsa of Container Homes Designer Domain said: 'We are delivering our units to a range of people from back yard granny flats to larger projects such as hotels, in King Island and major housing projects with up to 15 units per project.'. He said the The widespread use of the modern metal shipping container can be traced back to the mid-1950's. According to Marc Levinson, in April 1956 an oil tanker traveled between Newark and Houston with 58 rudimentary "shipping containers," (actually refitted These days, it seems as though shipping containers are being used more frequently for architecture than they are for actual shipping. There are several reasons why shipping container housing has grown in popularity. The houses are cost-effective Amsterdam student Rose Mandungu stands in front of a colorful apartment complex constructed of a rather unusual material—discarded shipping containers. The crowded Dutch city has been meeting a pressing need for student and other low-income housing by .

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Fabulous Shipping Container Home