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Posted: Thu Mar 26th, 2009 03:00 am |
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http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/shipping-container-homes-460309?link=rel&dom=msn&src=syn&con=slide&mag=td
The Ecopod
Another container home designed for on- or off-grid living is the Ecopod. Made from a shipping container, an electric winch is used to raise and lower the heavy deck door (power is supplied by a solar panel). The floor is made from recycled car tires, and the walls have birch paneling (over closed-cell soya foam insulation). The glass is double paned to slow heat transfer.
The Ecopod can be used as a stand alone unit or with other structures. It is designed to minimize environmental impact.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26th, 2009 03:04 am |
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Posted: Thu Mar 26th, 2009 03:08 am |
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All Terrain Cabin
Canada's Bark Design Collective built the All Terrain Cabin (ATC) as a showcase for sustainable (and Canadian!) ingenuity. The small home is based on a standard shipping container, and is said to be suitable for a family of four, plus a pet, to live off the grid in comfort and style.
The cabin folds up to look like any old shipping container, and can be sent via rail, truck, ship, airplane or even helicopter. When you're ready to rest your bones, the cabin quickly unfolds to 480 square feet of living space, with a range of creature comforts.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26th, 2009 03:14 am |
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2+ Weekend House
We love this adorable mini housing unit from architect Jure Kotnik. In the epitome of doing more with less, the upper container provides shade to the entry of the lower. The lower also provides space for a small terrace.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26th, 2009 03:16 am |
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Port-a-Bach
Need some flexibility with security? Need a temporary structure or small vacation home? Going off the grid? The Port-a-Bach system from New Zealand's Atelier Workshop might be a good fit.
Costing around $55,000, Port-a-Bach sleeps two adults and two children comfortably, in a dwelling that folds up into a fully enclosed steel shell.
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Posted: Thu Mar 26th, 2009 12:14 pm |
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I love these Container Architected places!
This morning in my inbox was an article related to the paradigm
Software researchers Cornelius Ncube from Bournemouth University and Patricia Oberndorf from the Software Engineering Institute are touting a new method for developing software systems. The approach is similar to the way participants in the TV shows "Junkyard Wars" and "Scrapheap Challenge" work with only scrap material, the appropriate tools for integrating the pieces, and their own imagination. In a research paper, Ncube and Oberndorf call for the use of currently available software and effective engineering in pursuing innovative solutions. "It proposes a radical approach to software systems development in which the major emphasis is on smart engineering, creativity, innovation, and the most imaginative ways of gluing together seemingly unrelated software pieces to provide interoperable and maintainable systems that meet users' needs," Ncube says.
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Posted: Fri Mar 27th, 2009 02:33 pm |
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Great Phil! Thanks for this addition. I hope you looked at all of them for they
were even stacked like apartments and painted bright colors. I am no engineer
but I wondered why most have the circular windows. Could it be simply
aesthetics to break from the linear lines everywhere ? Or is it simply somehow
easier to whack out that opening. I wonder how complicated it could be to
transport them to a farm and how expensive that process would be. I see mine
could be lots of windows for a greenhouse. The whole top glass and but then
why use that . I still like the little ladies post I did here of taking abandoned
sliding glass doors . I will resend if it is not here.
This could also be an answer to the tent series. Maybe Arnold will learn about
this.
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Posted: Fri Mar 27th, 2009 05:13 pm |
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In China traditional old estates have a large round door called the Moon Door or Moon Gate. Fung Shui and Taoist principles. Feminine and Yin.
Ok I've got to do my Chinese language homework now. I will master the language so I can do business there!
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