Architect Christian Salvati of Marengo Structures built the house on
Vernon St. in New Haven, Connecticut out of six recycled shipping
containers. The house was co-designed by architect Edsel Ramirez, and
they used 45-foot containers, into which holes for doors and windows, as
well as some of the interior walls to make rooms, were cut out prior to
transporting them to the building site.
The entire construction process on site took less then four hours.
The builders transported the containers to the site on flatbed trucks,
then positioned them into place using a crane. Prior to the beginning of
the construction process, they laid a concrete foundation, which is
about 45 times stronger than foundation used in the construction of
regular houses.
The house cost $360,000 to build, though Salvati is optimistic that
the cost will decrease substantially as he builds more shipping
container homes once the economy of scale becomes applicable. Salvati
purchased the lot where the house stands for $22,500 from Hill
Development Corporation. The house has two separate apartments. The
downstairs one is rented out to students, while Salvati uses the
upstairs apartment when he visits New Haven.
The shipping containers they used are longer than standard
containers, and they first painted the walls white on the inside and
grey on the outside. The front of the house was fitted with a wooden
façade that matches the other houses in the neighborhood, though the
grey exterior sidewalls are still clearly visible. Salvati left the
original doors of the container in place, and these now swing out in the
rear of the house to create the sides of the back porch. From the
inside the house looks no different than a regular house.
The interior of the home has sheetrock walls and ceilings, while the
floors are made of poured and polished concrete. The walls are insulated
with six inches of closed-cell soy-based sprayed cellulose. The house
is heated by baseboard hot water heaters, while the house is also fitted
with radiant floors. For cooling, air conditioners, ventilators and
ceiling fans were installed.
Salvati is also currently planning a larger shipping container housing
project in the New Haven area, which will be built using 26 shipping
containers. This house will also be flood proof, as it will be elevated
by the use of 9-foot concrete pilings. The six-apartment housing
project, to be located on the flood plains area, was recently
unanimously approved by the New Haven City Planning Commission.
Via JETSON GREEN
Fuente Original
http://www.jetsongreen.com/2014/02/student-housing-made-from-shipping-containers.html
No es soló lo que hacemos sino como lo hacemos.
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario