Sale a flote el secreto de la extraña barcaza de Google.

Google ha resuelto a través de un comunicado el misterio que rodeaba a su extraña barcaza, una estructura de cuatro pisos hecha de contenedores y que desde hace meses flota en aguas de la bahía de San Francisco, en California (EE.UU.).

"La barcaza de Google... ¿Un centro de datos flotante? ¿Un barco para fiestas locas? ¿Una barcaza que alberga el último dinosaurio vivo? Lamentablemente, no es nada de esto", reza el comunicado.

Según un portavoz del gigante informático, "a pesar de que [el proyecto] se encuentra en sus inicios y las cosas pueden cambiar, estamos explorando el uso de la barcaza como un espacio interactivo donde la gente pueda aprender sobre las nuevas tecnologías".

Los expertos opinan que esta explicación refuerza la teoría según la cual la embarcación va a ser utlizada para promocionar las Google Glass, las gafas inteligentes que Google sacará al mercado en los próximos meses.

Pese a que Google reveló el misterio de la embarcación de San Francisco, ésta no es la única estructura en la que está trabajando Google, ya que hay también otra plataforma flotante amarrada en el puerto de Portland, en Maine, con una estructura similar.

 

Via RT

Fuente Original 

http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/view/110598-google-revelar-misterio-barcazas

 

 

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Google ha resuelto a través de un comunicado el misterio que rodeaba a su extraña barcaza, una estructura de cuatro pisos hecha de contenedores y que desde hace meses flota en aguas de la bahía de San Francisco, en California (EE.UU.).

Texto completo en: http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/view/110598-google-revelar-misterio-barcazas

Google ha resuelto a través de un comunicado el misterio que rodeaba a su extraña barcaza, una estructura de cuatro pisos hecha de contenedores y que desde hace meses flota en aguas de la bahía de San Francisco, en California (EE.UU.).

Texto completo en: http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/view/110598-google-revelar-misterio-barcazas

Google ha resuelto a través de un comunicado el misterio que rodeaba a su extraña barcaza, una estructura de cuatro pisos hecha de contenedores y que desde hace meses flota en aguas de la bahía de San Francisco, en California (EE.UU.).

"La barcaza de Google... ¿Un centro de datos flotante? ¿Un barco para fiestas locas? ¿Una barcaza que alberga el último dinosaurio vivo? Lamentablemente, no es nada de esto", reza el comunicado.

Según un portavoz del gigante informático, "a pesar de que [el proyecto] se encuentra en sus inicios y las cosas pueden cambiar, estamos explorando el uso de la barcaza como un espacio interactivo donde la gente pueda aprender sobre las nuevas tecnologías".

Los expertos opinan que esta explicación refuerza la teoría según la cual la embarcación va a ser utlizada para promocionar las Google Glass, las gafas inteligentes que Google sacará al mercado en los próximos meses.

Pese a que Google reveló el misterio de la embarcación de San Francisco, ésta no es la única estructura en la que está trabajando Google, ya que hay también otra plataforma flotante amarrada en el puerto de Portland, en Maine, con una estructura similar.

Texto completo en: http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/view/110598-google-revelar-misterio-barcazas

Google ha resuelto a través de un comunicado el misterio que rodeaba a su extraña barcaza, una estructura de cuatro pisos hecha de contenedores y que desde hace meses flota en aguas de la bahía de San Francisco, en California (EE.UU.).

"La barcaza de Google... ¿Un centro de datos flotante? ¿Un barco para fiestas locas? ¿Una barcaza que alberga el último dinosaurio vivo? Lamentablemente, no es nada de esto", reza el comunicado.

Según un portavoz del gigante informático, "a pesar de que [el proyecto] se encuentra en sus inicios y las cosas pueden cambiar, estamos explorando el uso de la barcaza como un espacio interactivo donde la gente pueda aprender sobre las nuevas tecnologías".

Los expertos opinan que esta explicación refuerza la teoría según la cual la embarcación va a ser utlizada para promocionar las Google Glass, las gafas inteligentes que Google sacará al mercado en los próximos meses.

Pese a que Google reveló el misterio de la embarcación de San Francisco, ésta no es la única estructura en la que está trabajando Google, ya que hay también otra plataforma flotante amarrada en el puerto de Portland, en Maine, con una estructura similar.

Texto completo en: http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/view/110598-google-revelar-misterio-barcazas

Nomad Living: Shipping Container Project

Do you pay an exorbitant price for a dwelling that serves only for sleep? If so, you might be a modern nomad. Fortunately, Studio ARTE gets it. With their NOMAD Living project in Algarve, Portugal, the design ensemble explores the boundaries and flexibility of the modern wayfaring lifestyle. Born out of a disused shipping container, the project is a cheap and obtainable shelter that we could easily picture in a variety of locations, serving a variety of different purposes: office space, home or quiet, personal retreat. Indeed, adaptability and accessibility are precisely the objectives of Studio ARTE’s initiative, offering a flexible solution to our increasingly cordless lifestyle. So, we find ourselves asking, where can we get one?

Via ArchiExpo

Fuente Original 

http://trends.archiexpo.com/inspiration/nomad-living

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DIY Container home in West Asheville

Ryan Naylor of Grow Design is taking on a a container home build as a DIY project, he is kind enough to have sent some details through on the first stage of his project.

Details:
- location: West Asheville – exact location is private for his families sake.
- materials: Mostly re-used, scrap, and surplus materials including (but not limited to) two 40′ HC (high-cube 9.5ft. tall) shipping containers, a spiral staircase, a claw-foot bathtub, penny kitchen floor, etc.
- cost: UNDER 100K total. (property, materials, labor, city fee’s, etc.) for 1400 sq. ft. 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home.
- time to build: 6-8 months
- insulation: spray closed cell foam and batt
- windows: HUGE window panes from the Asheville courthouse (they ordered too many and some in the wrong sizes) and re-used, surplus, windows from friends/family/Craigslist

Via JETSON GREEN

Fuente Original 

http://www.jetsongreen.com/2013/11/diy-container-home-in-west-asheville.html

 

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Home That Can be Constructed In Less Than a Minute

JAYZ Building Solutions of Melbourne Australia have come up with an innovative solution for providing modular, prefab homes. They have recently launched the fully transportable InstantSlide house model, which is part of the company’s latest series of SMART2 (Superfast + Modular + Affordable + Robust + Transportable) accommodation buildings. Most of their designs cater to companies wishing to provide temporary housing for their staff on remote locations, such as on mining sites for example, while they also provide single-family modular homes.

The InstantSlide home is designed based on the measurements of a 20-foot or 40 foot container, and can therefore be transported worldwide just as simply as a standard container. Once the package arrives on site, the model can be assembled into a temporary or permanent home, or even used as an extension on an existing structure. All it takes for the InstantSlide to be assembled on site is the push of a button on a remote control and the assembly takes less than a minute.

The InstantSlide House can measure either 25 square meters or 50 square meters, and can house from two to four people. On site, the modular home can be unloaded by using a forklift or crane, or via a self-discharging truck. The InstantSlide house has a 50-year lifetime and is built to comply with all Australian building codes, as well as electrical and plumbing standards.

The InstantSlide house is built using a steel structure that is able to withstand D2-rated cyclones. The structure is seam welded, and includes a steel sheet external wall and roof cladding with a marine paint finish. The house is fully insulated using rock wool. Bamboo flooring is installed throughout the house, resting atop a termite treated marine grade ply base on a structural steel sub-frame. To create an effective thermal barrier, the house is also fitted with double glazed aluminum windows. The home also has a minimum 5 star energy efficiency rating.

The house comes with a pre-installed bathroom and kitchen cabinets, and are hard wired for television lighting, television, telephone and the internet. The InstantSlide model also has a number of optional features, such as a solar powered heat pump, hot water unit or an AC unit. JAYZ Building solutions also make modular homes of larger sizes up to 82 square meters, though those cannot be assembled at the push of a button.

Via JETSON GREEN

Fuente Original 

http://www.jetsongreen.com/2013/12/home-that-can-be-constructed-in-less-than-a-minute.html

 

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MEKA reinvents shipping container housing

Shipping containers are wonderful things- for shipping. They are part of an elaborate and extensive infrastructure for moving goods cheaply and efficiently that has revolutionized world trade. They are also all the rage among designers and architects who have been converting them into housing, with varying degrees of success.

Then there is Meka. They do not build shipping container housing; they build what I will call housing containers- modules of houses that are built to shipping container dimensions to take advantage of the shipping container infrastructure, without most of the problems that actually arise from working with shipping containers.

Where a shipping container is designed with enough steel to stack nine high completely filled with stuff, Meka designs their boxes with just enough steel to do the structural job that is required, while filling in the rest with conventional building materials that cost a lot less, that are easier to work with, and provide some insulation. As Jason Halter of MEKA explained:

What we're working with is a more livable structure. A shipping container isn't really an effective building. The envelope itself is a bit tough to deal with if you are going to apply cladding to the exterior, you have to do considerable structural modification if you are going to put in doors and windows and if you compromise the corrugated walls you have to do a lot of restructuring.

Where conventional modular housing has a range of about 500 miles from the factory because of the cost of shipping, these things can go anywhere. Design director Jason continues:

We were fascinated with and wanted to continue to pursue the ease of shipping and trucking and rail. We also started with the idea of trans-ocean shipping, but now are working with a company that builds prefabricated housing for FEMA and others.

So what we are doing is taking a good, practical well insulated building envelope and then we apply our patent-pending framing system to it in order to achieve something that is both structurally very durable and can be picked up from its corner castings and be delivered to a site, and yet functions well with a timber frame that can be finished on the interior and clad on the exterior.  

Shipping containers are engineered with really remarkable componentry, but it's the beams and corner posts and the corrugated steel that all goes together to make it wonderfully rigid and strong. But I am working with my engineer to reduce and refine that cage to focus on what is absolutely necessary. But when you apply the timberframe, it becomes remarkably strong, we have been able to meet hurricane requirements for Louisiana.

When I first wrote about MEKA, there was some concern that they had figured out how to offshore housing production to China. In fact, they have found that it is more efficient and easier to control if they build in Indiana, so now it has the additional advantage of being American made. This also solves the certification problems, as the factory in which they are built is certified as a prefab manufacturer.

In normal shipping container housing, one has to either leave a lot of wall between the two modules or put in some very big beams to support the roof. here the load is taken by the bathroom wall and a single column at the end of the dining room table. It is a lot more efficient and cost-effective if you add what you need instead of trying to cut away what you don't.

Paul Rudolph once said "The Mobile Home is the 20th Century Brick."* After spending most of my life looking at shipping containers and thinking about how they can be used for housing, I really do believe that the ISO shipping container form is the 21st century brick, and that MEKA has turned that brick into a building at last.

Via Treehugger

Fuente Original 

http://www.treehugger.com/modular-design/meka-world-reinvents-shipping-container-housing.html

 

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Royal Wolf / Room11

Royal Wolf es una empresa que especializa en el arriendo, venta y arreglo de containers nuevos y modificados. Utilizando las dependencias y el equipamiento de fabricación de esta empresa, Room11 transforma este típico volúmen clautrofobico, en un sistema de luminosos espacios de trabajo con patios interiores para dar vida a las oficinas administrativas y sede de la empresa en su centro de depósito y fabricación en Sunshine, Victoria.

Los recintos de Oficinas y recepción giran en torno a un patio central, al igual que la sala de reuniones, el área de la cocina y la Oficina del  gerente Regional, la cual se vincula también a otros patios.

La propuesta se estructura a partir de containers de 12 y 6 m posicionados en una forma tal que puedan construir 4 patios y al mismo tiempo un rectangulo que de forma a la totalidad del conjunto. Cada cara lateral de los containers fue remplazada por superficies vidriadas y en vez de recubrir interiormente la piel metálica de las otras caras,  las piezas que se cortaron para ser remplazadas por el vidrio, fueron re-utilizadas para crear paneles de aislación, de manera de exponer y celebrar la materialidad “cruda” o “sin pulir” de la piel del container. El cielo de cada container está tratado de la misma manera, considerando aislación en la parte superior y expresando la materialidad hacia el interior. Finalmente, dos containers son posicionados al final del conjunto, creando una claraboya estrecha y alta que permita  el ingreso de luz natural en el acceso, y al mismo tiempo pueda transformarse en un elemento que indique la continuidad del plano del suelo.

Situado a un lado de una autopista y en un area industrial, existe una constante carga de ruido a partir de los autos y del movimiento de la maquinaria pesada. A pertir de esto, cada oficina se orienta hacia los patios y jardines interiores, de modo de crear un espacio de trabajo que propicie la interioridad a partir de la luz natural, para mitigar el ruido y distanciarse de la agitada actividad industrial.

Via Plataforma Arquitectura

Fuente Original 

http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/2014/01/15/royal-wolf-room11

 

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Boring or Brilliant? Simple Shipping Container House Plans

Bland is not necessarily bad when the goal is to cheaply and easily reuse something industrial as a residential space. While a lot of cargo container homes delight the senses, these few dozen rather austere, bare-bones modular designs somewhat boldly focus on the nuts and bolts, so to speak, of living in a metal box.

“InterModal Design believes in the power of simplicity, the importance of affordability and the necessity of green spaces to enjoy the comfort and beauty of nature. IMD began after the construction of partner Paul Stankey’s own shipping container cabin in the relaxing woods of northern Minnesota.”

Reduce, reuse, recycle – a classic but applicable motto – works well with these variously-configured shipping containers designed to be used as cabins, cabanas, guest houses or off-the-grid residences. There is nothing fancy (in a good way) about the fold-down chairs, tables and beds the tuck neatly into walls when not actively needed, opening up floor area and serving multiple uses.

Unlike many more-conceptual approaches, there is an appropriate minimalism to the process laid out by this pragmatic Midwestern company. They have a flat-fee design rate, offer guidance on permitting, and provide standard architectural advice related to site, soil and foundation requirements and assistance with delivery and setup.

Still, not all of their ideas are strictly limited to conservative interiors and unfinished exteriors – some are overly more ‘home-like’ in terms of their outer form, while nonetheless using elemental prefab building blocks to keep down construction costs and eliminate unneeded complexities. Even these more-evolved models utilize existing open ends rather than unnecessarily cutting new doors and windows into old recycled containers.

 

Via DORNOB

Fuente Original 

http://dornob.com/boring-or-brilliant-simple-shipping-container-house-plans/#axzz2tw95l6Ul

 

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