Modern Container Architecture

Modern Container Architecture
Author: Aidan Hart
Publisher: Images Publishing
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2016-11
Genre: ARCHITECTURE
ISBN: 9781864707052

Shipping containers are the quintessential symbol of commerce and product distribution around the world. They represent global mobility and our capacity to move anything from anywhere. It is ironic, then, that they are increasingly being used for architectural installations, forming more static temporary and permanent structures, including housing. This book provides an informative overview of the advent of containerization and investigates a great range of modern architectural applications. It explores creativity in commercial design; innovative use of space; pop-up trends; plug-in architecture; how to balance budget with aesthetic concerns; and technical and structural considerations. Richly illustrated, with unique design narratives, the full-color case studies throughout showcase the innovative use of modern containers.

Quik Build

Quik Build
Author: Adam Kalkin
Publisher: Bibliotheque McLean
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780955886805

Adam Kalkin's projects using containers to build houses.

The Box

The Box
Author: Sibylle Kramer
Publisher: Braun Pub Ag
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2014-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783037681732

Shipping containers are the most conspicuous symbol of the globalized world economy 20 or 40 feet of pure steel reduced to the essentials. They are robust, standardized, inexpensive, universally available, and quickly assembled. Whether as single units, piled on top of each other, or placed in a row, covered or cut open contemporary architecture uses containers as extremely versatile elements for a great variety of contexts. Their aesthetic of practicality accommodates minimalistic temporary solutions, experimental design concepts, as well as highly demanding and complex building structures. The contemporary projects presented in this volume showcase the many functional and creative faces of the utilization of containers. Almost everything seems possible in the developing field of container architecture.

Container Atlas

Container Atlas
Author: Han Slawik
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Architecture, Modern
ISBN: 9783899556698

The book Container Atlas. A Practical Guide to Container Architecture presents a wide range of projects in container architecture - a contemporary architectural phenomenon. Container architecture has become an essential part of our twenty-first century surroundings, with it being used to create modular structures for pavilions, brand showrooms, retail premises, and even residential homes. Ten years after the first publication of Container Atlas, this eagerly anticipated follow-up charts how this movement has evolved into an essential part of today's architectural vocabulary. Container Atlas serves as a practical and inspirational reference not only for architects and engineers, but also for all creatives eager to learn about the rich and diverse language of container architecture and modular building."

Movable Architecture

Movable Architecture
Author: Ross Gilbert
Publisher: Images Shenyang
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781864707694

This text explores the many ways in which containers can be renovated to create low-carbon architecture, through 40 detailed project case studies.

HomeMade Modern

HomeMade Modern
Author: Ben Uyeda
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0762455071

You can make the furniture you want at a fraction of the price of store-bought furniture. Not only will you save tons of money, but you'll also make environmentally sustainable pieces that are solidly built, using real materials like metal, wood, concrete, and other recycled ready-mades. The projects in this book don't require special skills, prior experience, or even a garage full of tools. You'll be walked step-by-step through the process of making furniture, from where to buy the materials (or where to scavenge) to how to make the most of the tools you own.

LOT-EK

LOT-EK
Author: Ada Tolla
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1580934838

LOT-EK is a design practice that believes in being unoriginal, ugly, and cheap. Also in being revolutionary, gorgeous, and completely luxurious. LOT-EK’s work reveals extraordinary transformations of ordinary things—from their famous shipping container projects onward—combining maker culture and hacker culture into beautiful and radical visions for sustainable and meaningful living. LOT-EK: Objects + Operations surveys dozens of projects—built, unbuilt and in-progress; polemical, practical, and in-between—complemented by photographs from LOT-EK’s multi-year URBAN SCAN project, a vast photographic document of infrastructure and incident, as well as essays by Thomas de Monchaux and interviews with founding partners Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano.

Stack, Cut, Assemble ISO 668

Stack, Cut, Assemble ISO 668
Author: Sibylle Kramer
Publisher: Braun Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-07-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783037682319

This volume presents the latest container projects from around the world and shows how originally mass-produced items can be turned into exceptional one-of-a-kind objects

Green Container Architecture 3

Green Container Architecture 3
Author: Luis de Garrido
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Containers
ISBN: 9788415829812

The book aims to demonstrate a methodology to achieve a green and cheap architecture using containers. The containers have been designed to store and transport goods over long distances, and in a tight, economical and safe way. However, it also happens, the curious coincidence that the spaces that have been designed for storing and transporting goods, have a proper human scale. That is, they are also valid for designing living spaces. However containers have not been designed to de lived in. Therefore, the first thing to be done when using containers in architecture is to ensure the minimum conditions of habitability inside. Something that is not taken into account by almost all the proposals. On the other hand, buildings by no means are "green" simply because they have been designed using containers. What's more, most buildings made by containers offer poorer quality of life, and consume more energy than conventional buildings. Therefor, Luis De Garrido analyzes all actions to be carried out in order to make habitable the buildings made by containers, and slo to achieve real sustainable architecture using them. T illustrate these concepts, four advanced container projects designed by Luis De Garrido are analyzed in depth. The book has a strong educational and training value, but at the same time it is a professional and effective tool for all architects and builders, who wish to deal with the sustainable design of buildings made by containers.