I’ve seen permit drawings approved by the building department for a single-family house made from two containers with stick-framed additions, drawings were sealed by the architect and a structural engineer. The containers were pretty heavily modified, they cut in several windows, the large opening connecting to the stick-framed addition, and an opening for the stairs.
A client (former general contractor turned developer) shared his thought that he didn’t see any cost savings, he said he would stick frame the structure and use metal siding and essentially achieve the same look and save money.
In my mind insulation is the big issue and how that eats up the space inside the container. The drawings I mentioned in #5 specify 9’-6” high containers (from bottom of floor to top of the sides of the box) with 2” of closed-cell spray foam and 7.5” batt insulation in the ceiling, they ended up with 8’ 3 1/4” to the bottom of the framing. They used 1” of spray foam and 3.5” batt insulation on the walls, the plan does not call out the clear width of the spaces in the container. Section has a note that the top of the box is sloped to the sides and elevations call out a “membrane” roof but no details.
I’ve seen houses online with continuous, exposed roof framing members going through largely glazed walls, I have wondered if they have a problem with condensation in the winter.
Chapter 31 section 3115.1
Don't you want to reduce your carbon foot print?
If only we had a carbon sequestering building material that is relatively cheap and widely available...Don't you want to reduce your carbon foot print?
I thinks it's a novelty thing, kinda like having a flying car, you have one and I don't.
Just the ones that didn't clear the low bridge overpass!
“An empty 40' shipping container weighs 8380 pounds. A galvanized steel stud weighs a pound per linear foot. These two containers, melted down and rolled and formed, could have been upcycled into 2,095 8' long steel studs. Framing the walls instead of using shipping containers would have used about 144 of them. Using shipping containers as structural elements for a one storey building is downcycling and wasting of a resource.”
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Does it matter the foundation fur a shipping container can be 4 piers and got 144 studies a 96' wall?“An empty 40' shipping container weighs 8380 pounds. A galvanized steel stud weighs a pound per linear foot. These two containers, melted down and rolled and formed, could have been upcycled into 2,095 8' long steel studs. Framing the walls instead of using shipping containers would have used about 144 of them. Using shipping containers as structural elements for a one storey building is downcycling and wasting of a resource.”
From this article:
What's Wrong With Shipping Container Housing? One Architect Says "Everything."
Perhaps a bit of an overstatement, but Mark Hogan makes some good points.www.treehugger.com
That's a helluva moving article, isn't it? (I did the math: using steel studs, you could build 14.5 homes of a similar size occupied by the two shipping containers from which those studs could have been derived.)“An empty 40' shipping container weighs 8380 pounds. A galvanized steel stud weighs a pound per linear foot. These two containers, melted down and rolled and formed, could have been upcycled into 2,095 8' long steel studs. Framing the walls instead of using shipping containers would have used about 144 of them. Using shipping containers as structural elements for a one storey building is downcycling and wasting of a resource.”
From this article:
What's Wrong With Shipping Container Housing? One Architect Says "Everything."
Perhaps a bit of an overstatement, but Mark Hogan makes some good points.
For sure, everyone writing about it online has their opinion and some people might be blindly intolerant of what other people prefer, maybe one day they will learn to at least try to see things from the other person’s perspective.
You’re welcome!
If your firm was interested you could market that passion and knowledge and maybe find some clients who would pay for a design with alternative building features.
