SHIPPING CONTAINER

i hv been researching on shipping container.. how it structure, how it shipping the desig of the SC, how people use the SC
in nowaday....




an excellent page of every single detail of a shipping container must check it out
The Container That Changed the World
reinvent shipping container
building home from SC

portable architecture

wutz da defination of portable architecture?

a building dat can move around..
it can b anywhere,allow u to carry wiv you into different place, not a fixed structure, easy to install/setup
example of portable architecture..carivan, tent,infatable building (circus)...etc

Nearly every American house I've lived in has long ago been demolished to make room for some other building. There is a delicious (though painful) paradox here: Americans long for stability, but all they get is stationary impermanence. No wonder then many of us long to become permanent nomads, snails with houses on our backs, Touareg tribesmen, and Gypsies."?Poet Andrei Codrescu, from his introduction to Mobile: The Art of Portable Architecture by Jennifer Siegal

Architecture schools teach statics ?the branch of structural analysis based on the principle that buildings should be stationary and motionless. Civilization, too, teaches "statics" when it halts nomadic cultures, asserts the idea of living in one place, and attempts to freeze buildings in place and in time. In a counterpoint to these lessons, Jennifer Siegal's Office of Mobile Design (OMD) challenges current models with designs that are flexible and mobile and that reach toward a different way of thinking about how we live.

Since 1998, OMD has been looking at ways to rethink standard modes of mobile living, focusing especially on the much maligned "mobile home." Siegal's dream is to reinvent a mobile house, retaining the concepts of affordability and flexibility but shaking up the bland design notions that now dominate the genre.

Portable Housing

The "portable house" was one of the first manifestations of her concept of new nomadism. It was designed to provide alternatives for those who have disposable income but not enough capital to enter the standard housing market. Siegal's portable house has expandable and contractible spaces and varying degrees of transparency in materials with the intention of providing a richness of experience in a simple form.
Her portable house has a central kitchen/bath core with sleeping areas to one side and an expandable living area on the other. As climatic conditions change, the house can be reoriented to take advantage of sun and natural ventilation. Units can be grouped to form larger social entities and common spaces. Or multiple units can be connected to create a larger space for a family.

The portable house ?"a mass-customized residential building unit" ?also incorporates several sustainable strategies and materials. It has a natural ventilation periscope, advanced plastic-foam insulation, and floors of plyboo, a laminated bamboo product.

Siegal sees such buildings that are mobile and "rest lightly on the land" as an alternative to urban sprawl. One of her office's most recent projects is Ecoville ?an artist-in- residence community near the heart of downtown Los Angeles.
In Ecoville, portable houses are stacked in a variety of configurations. Sustainable strategies include drought-resistant plants, common gardens, and green building materials.........click here for more

Elements of the "portable house," by Jennifer Siegal's Office of Mobile Design, expand into the landscape.

http://www.architectureweek.com/cgi-bin/wlk?http://www.designmobile.com/index.html

FREIGHT HOUSE

we are required to design a Freight house with a 20ft shipping container..low-tech,low cost the development of the house needs to folding/unfolding...etc..

pre-made container?

i hv found sum pre-made shipping container the building is for temporary or permanent housing, shelters, portable offices/studios, worker housing..a simple idea of how the patition of the interior display..

http://globalportablebuildings.com

"the brief"

omg..a new brief aga....hv ta work extra hard on it...newaiz it sounds interesting by using a shipping container to create a service for the community....but still lots of details need to b consider well...n it has to b a reasonable point to use inside the container..

L.ve House
Mobile Performance Buildings
Freight House Project
Industrial Design Upper Pool Design Studio, GRAP 1034 / 1035 / 2221, Semester One, 2008

L.ve House
Mobile Performance Buildings
Freight House (25% due in Week 6)
Much of the world's freight is moved around in shipping containers. They are mobile modular structures of a standard dimension. They are designed to be fastened together, stacked, mechanically lifted, and mounted to a range of vehicles, secure, and weatherproof. There are literally millions of them globally, and many have reached their serviceable life. For these reasons, they have inspired many architects and designers as a ready solution for low cost modular building applications. We are going to use this system of containerisation to explore themes and principles relevant to the Live House Studio, in particular packing and performance.

You are required to design a Freight house using a single 20-foot shipping container as a starting point. You will need to propose a series of features and mechanisms that give it the ability to transform from its standard freight form to a configuration capable of providing a useful service.

There are many examples of innovative applications of containers. I have provided a list of some of those possibilities below, with links to several of those examples. Please also see the references provided for the Research Report. There is also a list of processes used in unpacking and packing for you to investigate. Your proposal needs to be realistic, utilising current inexpensive technologies. You will need to provide examples of systems and technologies from other products and applications to validate the feasibility of your concept.

You are to explore and present the project using animated 3D CAD models and/or physical working scale models. Please thoroughly document the development of your concept.

Some important questions to address are:
‧ What service will your Freight House provide?

‧ What are the appropriate features required to provide that service?

‧ How can you maximise the available space and number of features of your Freight House, while retaining its capacity to be freighted using existing container transportation and handling systems?

‧ What are the most appropriate mechanisms for transforming your house from its freight mode to working mode? ‧ How might this transformation entertain and intrigue?

thinkin' inside the box

EASTER BREAK*

finally holz start...umm..i fink i ll start lookin' into specify area on the live house, portable architecture, mobile building, mobile home..carvan, tent, inflatable building structure...try research it on internet library and visit sitee..if there are any...

hopefully i can do better in mah tym management in complete the task i needa do...

1st tym to borrow book from library in this 3 yrs

oh......books..i have borrow some books for the research hopefully it will help me a lil bit..

look at the yellow books, it from 1975..so vintagee..nah sho y i hv borrow it.....juzt because it said "mobile home"?

button house

illy push button house

the well-know illy push button house..was manufacture from a shipping container. and by fold/ in and put to creat a mobile cafe..

i really impressed by the design..is brialliant and used the space well...but wut happen wen its rain?



"illy’s innovative Push Button House, designed by noted artist/architect Adam Kalkin, was on display at New York City’s Time Warner Center from November 29 – December 29, 2007. Originally unveiled at the 52nd Venice Biennale in June, 2007, the illy Push Button House is a fully functional and sustainable home built within an industrial shipping container. At the push of a button, the shipping container transforms into a five-room home with kitchen, dining room, bedroom, living room and library.... "

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