Re: What does containerized housing look like? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Lion Kuntz (lionkuntzyahoo.com) | |
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:22:43 -0700 (PDT) |
--- Brian Bartholomew <bb [at] stat.ufl.edu> wrote: > > I get giggles in my forming coho group for wanting to self-build a > house using oceangoing shipping containers as a building block. I > expect it to have an unconventional appearance. I also expect it to > cost less than $20K for the house only. Most of the real objections > have centered around 'few people want to look at that', which is > expected to hurt the prospects of mortgages and resales for others. > > May I invite cohos with scrounged and nontraditional houses to talk a > little about the actual, observed consequences of such buildings on > the financial lifecycle of more traditionally designed units? > > Brian Orginally conceived as "affordable" rental housing these prefab containerized units were made of steel-rebar reinforced concrete. Some time later the tenants association voted to go condo and now the units sell for up to $1.8 million. However that price reflects joining four previously seperated dwellings into one split-level mansion. Today's photo study is a particularly ugly example giving terraced housing a bad name. http://ecosyn.us/1/Habitat_67/Habitat_67.html Habitat 67 2600 Avenue Pierre-Dupuy, Montreal, QC, Canada Google Satellite views http://snipurl.com/pmy8 http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/expo67/map-docs/habitat67.htm Habitat 67 Habitat 67, an experiment in apartment living, became the permanent symbol of Expo 67 after it closed. It was Canadian architect Moshe Safdie's experiment to make a fundamentally better and cheaper housing for the masses. He attempted to make a revolution in the way homes were built - by the industrialization of the building process; essentially factory mass production. He felt that it was more efficient to make buildings in factories and deliver them prefabricated to the site. Habitat's 158 living units resembled a Taos Indian pueblo. ... While factory production techniques should have cut overall costs, building 158 apartments isn't really productive in factory work since there is often a steep learning curve. Also since the individual units would bear the weight load of the units above, the units on the bottom where actually thicker and stronger. In the end Habitat 67 cost $22,195,920, or about $140,000 per living unit. Effectively that was the same cost as building six-eight ordinary town houses. Luckily one could rationalize that it was only a prototype, and if scaled up, it might be much cheaper to construct. http://www.habitat67.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_'67 Habitat '67 is a striking housing complex located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on the Quai Marc-Drouin on the Saint Lawrence River. It was designed by architect Moshe Safdie based on his master's thesis at McGill University. Habitat 67 in Montreal winter Enlarge Habitat 67 in Montreal winter It was designed to integrate the variety and diversity of scattered private homes with the economics and density of a modern apartment building. Modular, interlocking concrete forms define the space. The complex was built as part of Expo '67. The project was designed to create affordable housing with close but private quarters, each equipped with a garden. The complex was originally meant to be vastly larger. It also failed in its goal of being affordable as the building is today quite elite. It is now a privately-owned condominium complex since it was purchased by its tenants in 1985. Safdie hoped that his vision of interlocking modules would become widespread. However Safdie's attempts to build similar structures elsewhere in the world all failed to be funded. http://cac.mcgill.ca/safdie/habitat/showphotos.htm http://cac.mcgill.ca/safdie/habitat/ http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Habitat_67.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/denmar/124051003/ http://ecosyn.us/1/Habitat_67/Habitat_67.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sincerely, Lion Kuntz Santa Rosa, California, USA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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