Thursday, March 18, 2010

Architectural Analysis III: Innovative Designs I

Hey!!! Sorry for the long hiatus, but this is it:
I will try to update as much as possible in the future. Thanks for the patience!














Just two days ago I stumbled upon something interesting. Essentially, it exemplifies an aspect of ecological and sustainable design. There are houses made of shipping containers (the kind you find on huge trading ships). They are economical to build, because they are made of pre-existing shipping containers, which is much cheaper than constructing houses under traditional methods. These shipping containers can even be used in a modular fashion; stacked on top of each other like Lego bricks or across . This also reduces the labor required to complete the structure. This, incidentally is also very green to construct, since the storage containers are reused after the initial purpose has passed.

Here are my analysis and interpretation of different storage container houses:


Port-a-Bach

This innovative designed house is made in New Zealand's Atelier Workshop and sports one module storage container that is also a house that is tightly packed with a expandable bed (as displayed above) but also of course environmentally friendly.











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