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Shipping Container Architecture Joe 04-19-2008
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Posted by Warm Worm on April 22, 2008, 5:14 am
Bill wrote:
> Bob Vila did a series in South Florida with two steel containers that had a
> 20' space between them.
> When it was done, you could not tell it was made out of the containers.
> Some outfit out of Tampa is utilizing the containers to make Hurricane
> resistant houses.
>
>>>> Why not get sheets of corrugated steel and construct them as warranted
>>>> rather than go through the bother of altering a prefab version?
>>> Hi Don,
>>>
>>> The reason is containers are easy to find, can be bought cheap and the
>>> have known structural qualities. These things get lugged on/off ships and
>>> roll around the oceans. A few years ago in Western Australia an entire
>>> township, in the path of a Category 5 cyclone. got inside a 12m/40 ft
>>> container for shelter. They all came out again unharmed.

I have a shipping container design in my head that got out halfway on my
previous laptop just before I dropped it down an escalator. :D

Posted by Bill on April 22, 2008, 11:26 pm
>>
>>
>
> It looks like it's a lot like living in an RV. Are all containers 8'
> wide?
> And is that an interior measurement, or an exterior one? How does one
> attatch two or more, welding? Do tehy need the roof because they leak, or
> is the roof a way to help keep them insulated (shades the top in Summer,
> insulates in Winter)? The strudiness fo the containers has been described
> in various posts, but how does one anchor them to the ground?
>
> TIA!
>
> - K.

If you can imagine removing the side from one end to the other. Then placing
another container 12' away with the length of it's side removed also, you
get some of the idea of the size.
Something like 28' X 40'.

The roof was a truss style roof 3/12 pitch.

The base of each container was welded to the footer that elevated it two
feet off of the ground at each secure point every 8'.

Ended up to be a good size house that looked nothing at all like the
original containers.

I think the company was something like "Tampa Armature works".



Posted by Bill on April 23, 2008, 5:00 pm
Here is the link for the Bob Vila show.

http://www.bobvila.com/BVTV/Bob_Vila/Episode-0203.html


>> It looks like it's a lot like living in an RV. Are all containers 8'
>> wide?
>> And is that an interior measurement, or an exterior one? How does one
>> attatch two or more, welding? Do tehy need the roof because they leak,
>> or
>> is the roof a way to help keep them insulated (shades the top in Summer,
>> insulates in Winter)? The strudiness fo the containers has been
>> described
>> in various posts, but how does one anchor them to the ground?
>>
>> TIA!
>>
>> - K.
>
> If you can imagine removing the side from one end to the other. Then
> placing another container 12' away with the length of it's side removed
> also, you get some of the idea of the size.
> Something like 28' X 40'.
>
> The roof was a truss style roof 3/12 pitch.
>
> The base of each container was welded to the footer that elevated it two
> feet off of the ground at each secure point every 8'.
>
> Ended up to be a good size house that looked nothing at all like the
> original containers.
>
> I think the company was something like "Tampa Armature works".
>



Posted by Kris Krieger on April 24, 2008, 1:05 am

> Here is the link for the Bob Vila show.
>
> http://www.bobvila.com/BVTV/Bob_Vila/Episode-0203.html

Interesting, thanks :)


>
>
>>> It looks like it's a lot like living in an RV. Are all containers
>>> 8' wide?
>>> And is that an interior measurement, or an exterior one? How does
>>> one attatch two or more, welding? Do tehy need the roof because
>>> they leak, or
>>> is the roof a way to help keep them insulated (shades the top in
>>> Summer, insulates in Winter)? The strudiness fo the containers has
>>> been described
>>> in various posts, but how does one anchor them to the ground?
>>>
>>> TIA!
>>>
>>> - K.
>>
>> If you can imagine removing the side from one end to the other. Then
>> placing another container 12' away with the length of it's side
>> removed also, you get some of the idea of the size.
>> Something like 28' X 40'.
>>
>> The roof was a truss style roof 3/12 pitch.
>>
>> The base of each container was welded to the footer that elevated it
>> two feet off of the ground at each secure point every 8'.
>>
>> Ended up to be a good size house that looked nothing at all like the
>> original containers.
>>
>> I think the company was something like "Tampa Armature works".
>>
>
>
>


Posted by Bill on April 24, 2008, 1:24 pm
>
> What does a shipping container weigh and how much do they cost.
> My next question would be, How difficult and expensive is it to have one
> delivered to a site?

Look on Craig's list. I see them on there all the time for $600 up to
$1400.

20' up to 40'.

Not sure of the weight, but I'm sure they will deliver for a fee.



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