Shipping Container Houses
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Contain yourself, By Richard Jinman, September 1, 2005
It's not every day you get to eat dinner in a big steel box on the edge of the harbour. There are seven of us. Three on the couch, another on the floor with his plate on his knees, two more guests on chairs and one child in the bedroom out the back. It's rather intimate but high on novelty value. There's wine and lemonade all round as we celebrate my first night in an 11.8m x 2.35m x 2.6m shipping container.
It had arrived 10 hours earlier on the back of a truck. "Where d'ya want it?" the driver asked as he jumped down from his cab.
We chose a quiet corner of Rozelle Bay next to the Liquidity restaurant and only metres from the luxury motor yachts moored in the marina. The driver pushed the buttons on a remote control unit and hydraulic arms at each end of the truck raised the four-tonne steel box, swung it outwards and lowered it gently onto the bitumen.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/cover-story/contain-yourself/2005/08/31/1125302599915.html
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The general manager of Royal Wolf Trading, Bob Allan, says ContainAcom is aimed at people who need fast, flexible and affordable housing - from the city couple who want to put a low-cost home on their "lifestyle block" down the coast to universities and local authorities seeking an innovative approach to low-cost housing.
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Contain yourself, By Richard Jinman, September 1, 2005
It's not every day you get to eat dinner in a big steel box on the edge of the harbour. There are seven of us. Three on the couch, another on the floor with his plate on his knees, two more guests on chairs and one child in the bedroom out the back. It's rather intimate but high on novelty value. There's wine and lemonade all round as we celebrate my first night in an 11.8m x 2.35m x 2.6m shipping container.
It had arrived 10 hours earlier on the back of a truck. "Where d'ya want it?" the driver asked as he jumped down from his cab.
We chose a quiet corner of Rozelle Bay next to the Liquidity restaurant and only metres from the luxury motor yachts moored in the marina. The driver pushed the buttons on a remote control unit and hydraulic arms at each end of the truck raised the four-tonne steel box, swung it outwards and lowered it gently onto the bitumen.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/cover-story/contain-yourself/2005/08/31/1125302599915.html
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The general manager of Royal Wolf Trading, Bob Allan, says ContainAcom is aimed at people who need fast, flexible and affordable housing - from the city couple who want to put a low-cost home on their "lifestyle block" down the coast to universities and local authorities seeking an innovative approach to low-cost housing.
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did anyone else catch something on the evening tele a couple of weeks back about the lock-together apartments in britain? they looked really interesting.
the whole apartment is bought in prefab with kitchen, bathroom, doors, windows and everything, then lifted by crane to "lego" on top of the identical apartment below and locked into place - as many stories high as individual councils would allow. obviously plumbing and electricity needs to then be connected but because of the way it was designed, this was just a plug in a twist installation of utilities.
they came apart just as easily to be moved to another site and are used for low cost housing - what a brilliant idea. they looked pretty good inside as well.
problem is - i can't remember what they were called!
lizzie
the whole apartment is bought in prefab with kitchen, bathroom, doors, windows and everything, then lifted by crane to "lego" on top of the identical apartment below and locked into place - as many stories high as individual councils would allow. obviously plumbing and electricity needs to then be connected but because of the way it was designed, this was just a plug in a twist installation of utilities.
they came apart just as easily to be moved to another site and are used for low cost housing - what a brilliant idea. they looked pretty good inside as well.
problem is - i can't remember what they were called!
lizzie
Re "did anyone else catch something on the evening tele a couple of weeks back about the lock-together apartments in britain? they looked really interesting."
http://www.google.com.au/search?q="...nt=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official_s
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/guerrillahomes/guerrilla_the_homes.shtml
or
http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/june/prefab_text.htm
Prefab apartment buildings are a bit like London buses: you don't see any for a couple of decades and then three come along at once.
First there was Murray Grove in London, designed by architect Cartwright Pickard for housing association the Peabody Trust, manufactured by Portakabin's sister company Yorkon and built in just seven months in 1999, followed by Sixth Avenue - a 24-unit, steel-framed block in York.
And here's the latest project to fall off the back of a lorry: Raines Dairy. Again for Peabody, the six-storey block in North London has been designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, with modules once more built by Yorkon.
Raines Dairy is the biggest of the new-generation prefabs, containing 61 units and costing £11 million. It also uses the largest modules to date: the steel-frame boxes are 3.8m wide, meaning just two are required per two-bed apartment.
The driving force behind it is Peabody's development director Dickon Robinson, who is single-handedly trying to reintroduce the disgraced construction technique to the UK. Robinson believes modular construction could lead to better, faster housing: since they are made in factory conditions, the modules should theoretically be as high-quality as modern cars.
In practice, however, the technique is still feeling its way. Building flats in Yorkshire and ferrying them to a cramped site in London creates a completely different set of headaches to traditional construction. "Modular is absolutely in its infancy," says Simon Allford of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, who adds that the next stage is to develop larger units to minimise transportation, and to increase the amount of construction done off-site from the 50 per cent achieved at Raynes Dairy to 80 per cent. AHMM is learning all it can from this scheme to apply to others, including MoMo - a prototype modular housing idea it is working on with a shipping container manufacturer.
So, there are teething troubles. But is modular the future? "It isn't the future," says Allford. "But it is a future."
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A lot more interesting links at
http://www.shipping-container-housing.com/shipping-container-houses.html
http://www.google.com.au/search?q="...nt=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official_s
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/guerrillahomes/guerrilla_the_homes.shtml
or
http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/june/prefab_text.htm
Prefab apartment buildings are a bit like London buses: you don't see any for a couple of decades and then three come along at once.
First there was Murray Grove in London, designed by architect Cartwright Pickard for housing association the Peabody Trust, manufactured by Portakabin's sister company Yorkon and built in just seven months in 1999, followed by Sixth Avenue - a 24-unit, steel-framed block in York.
And here's the latest project to fall off the back of a lorry: Raines Dairy. Again for Peabody, the six-storey block in North London has been designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, with modules once more built by Yorkon.
Raines Dairy is the biggest of the new-generation prefabs, containing 61 units and costing £11 million. It also uses the largest modules to date: the steel-frame boxes are 3.8m wide, meaning just two are required per two-bed apartment.
The driving force behind it is Peabody's development director Dickon Robinson, who is single-handedly trying to reintroduce the disgraced construction technique to the UK. Robinson believes modular construction could lead to better, faster housing: since they are made in factory conditions, the modules should theoretically be as high-quality as modern cars.
In practice, however, the technique is still feeling its way. Building flats in Yorkshire and ferrying them to a cramped site in London creates a completely different set of headaches to traditional construction. "Modular is absolutely in its infancy," says Simon Allford of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, who adds that the next stage is to develop larger units to minimise transportation, and to increase the amount of construction done off-site from the 50 per cent achieved at Raynes Dairy to 80 per cent. AHMM is learning all it can from this scheme to apply to others, including MoMo - a prototype modular housing idea it is working on with a shipping container manufacturer.
So, there are teething troubles. But is modular the future? "It isn't the future," says Allford. "But it is a future."
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A lot more interesting links at
http://www.shipping-container-housing.com/shipping-container-houses.html
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