The project is designing a container home that has the potential to house a couple that is starting a family so it will need sleeping eating and living space. This will require to have a home that is appealing to the eye and can also hold a family that is growing.
McF14079s's work for the Collect Information step:
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I got my info from sites that are selling shipping containers to see how much they are to buy new or restore.
Any shipping container will need add on to give electricity and plumbing also have insolation for...
Potential building site for my container home. This location has a L shape lot. Also the outside...
The people living in this container home is a newly married couple that are planning to have kids...
McF14079s's work for the Brainstorm Ideas step:
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The Ideas that I came up with had to fall between two things; meeting the needs of the people living in the home and that it looks appealing.
This is the first idea which involved four containers with one on the bottom being at ground level...
This my second design and I truly love it do to it keeping the bridge from the first one and adding...
This is my third design as a fall back mainly if the budgets of the second design does not hold up...
This is the property of the location I found to build my container home along with were on this...
The house would have the key parts facing the sun rise or have windows on both sides to allow...
McF14079s's work for the Develop Solutions step:
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As I said in the brainstorming I have designed three potential designs to meet the criteria for the couple that I am building for.McF14079s's work for the Final Design step:
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I desired to go with design 2 and design it Revit.
This is the 3D view of the final design. The I beams go around the inside corners between the...
This is the first floor design. Not that there is a space between the two sides but the second...
The second floor is a bridge between the first floor rooms, and has the kitchen and dining with two...
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The challenge for this project is to design a home out of storage containers with a budget of 30,000 dollars. The advantages of using shipping containers are that they are cheap with used being about $1,200 to new being $6,000 and can be fixed up fairly easily. Also they can be cut, and welded together fairly easily allowing them to be modified into different shapes. To add on to that supports can be added easily verses a wood frame house. The differences is that steal containers are not well insulated and need insolation to keep the house cool. Also used containers will have to be cleaned out and fixed up to make habitable due to spillages during their use. The parameters are that the containers are 40 feet x 8 feet each, materials that are used are only containers and recycled materials. Also we can only use 4 containers. Other than that it is free rein on what we can due.