Container living

[mella l]

Here are a few sites I googled regarding Container living. I searched three times for the old thread and couldn't find it. So here you go, this is really fascinating to me.

http://www.bobvila.com/BVTV/Bob_Vila/Vid...-05-1.html

http://materialicio.us/2007/07/20/a-snea...ontainers/


http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/fablisthome.htm

Hey Glen the Sunset Breezeway house is shown as container built, in this last site!!! Who knew!


mella l

PS. Here are some floor plans that could be containerized I think.

http://www.mkd-arc.com/homes/glidehouse/...rplans.php

[Bob Orts]

FYI, the BreezeHouse isn't a container home. It's manufactured as a modular home to fit on multiple 40' flatrack or platform containers, or it can disassembled into panelized sections to fit in multiple enclosed 40'containers. The container is for shipping purposes only, otherwise it's a factory built home.

There's a Breeze House in my community on the mainland.

[mella l]

Thanks Bob, I realize that sorry I wasn't clear. However it would be adaptable to containers don't you think?

Have you personally gone thru a breeze house? Just wondering what the feel of it would be. Thanks again for the clarification.

mella l

[Haole]

Hi, all,

I know this link was on the original thread. I really am enamored with this simple design, and the surroundings look so... familiar. It's easy to imagine this set-up in Puna.

http://earthsci.org/education/fieldsk/co...ainer.html

aloha!

[Bob Orts]

When they first started delivering it, I though someone had bought a bunch of mobile homes overseas and had them shipped in. During assembly, I though they were a bunch of double wide - double long trailers. Next I thought it was 2 sets of double wide - double long being built close to each other. Suddenly it was two double wides - double longs being connected with a SIP patio cover. Finally the patio cover appeared to be enclosed and there you had a house.

In a nut shell its two houses joined together by an enclosed breezeway (hence name ?) making up the living and dining room. Simplistic in design with ever so much function.

Could containers be used? Absolutely!

As for the house itself, mixed feelings. The house is based on renewable and green material, but truth is, it's a fashion/design statement and I really don't think the "green" of the house was the priority and more that it was the now cliché to have material and design. Some of it was downright ugly and seemed to be a pain in the butt for maintenance but the owners never stop talking about the specialty of material in the house and such (along with the cost) at every chance they got.

My GC friend said the house could be built locally for a third what they paid using green and renewable material. He also said that there were many hidden environmentally unfriendly things as well. Some of the green and recycled material would require substantial treatment to make them usable, so that may offset any green advantage. Also for areas where green material wasn’t used, the amount of non-renewable and virgin material was large. He and I were impressed by the design and layout, but not the environmental reasons the house is being marketed. However, in all fairness, the owners are California snobs so I may be a bit bias in my view.[]

[mella l]

Haole thanks for the link to the earth science org thread on container building! I didn't save it before.

I love the simplicity also. No don't need the granite or wood floorings nor the clear maple built ins. But the simplicity of design is very attractive to me, especially as I'd love to live out of doors as much as possible. Thanks for the tour and review Bob.

mella l