Container House!

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biscuitninja_IHB

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I've recently started doing some side work in desiging a container house. I'm just wondering if anybody here has any experience with it. If so what are you thoughts, ideas?

-bix
 
Since containers are all the same size and the stacking of them vertically and juxstaposition would be an interesting composition. The theory of Cubism and the work of Corbusier and rietveld in 1910 were based on the modular system.

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Le Corbusier 1923 inspired many architects like Richard Meier (Getty Museum) and Richard Neutra (Kaufmann House)

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Villa Savoye in France by LeCorbusier in 1918

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Rietveld was an artist of Modernism. His work in 1900 was ahead of his time.

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Lovell Beach House in Newport Beach 1923 by Shindler and Dr. Lovell also commissioned another architect for another house in LA

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Richard Neutra's Lovell House in Silverlake

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Dr, Kaufmann hired Frank Lloyd Wright for this 1938 masterpiece in Penn. He later hired Richard Neutra to design Trooper's dream house in Palm Springs.

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Trooper's dream home 1946 Kaufmann house in Palm Spring by Neutra

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I met Julius Schulman years ago and he told me the hills were photographed with a much longer exposure to capture the light behind it while the light inside the house was over exposed so he took another photo of the house and spliced the 2 negatives together as one.

The most outstanding modern architecture were an assembly of simply stacked boxes. The purity and their clean line are time honored style that inspired the infinite variations we see today.
 
It never occured to me to develop something like the Kaufmann house... I am SSSSoooo glad I developed this thread. I'll post up some rough CAD pictures soon.

-bix
 
Here are the actual applications:

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Above are bad examples when not articulated

These are the good example when good design is applied

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The bums on the cargo containers were the futurist. They were ahead of our time and lived an eco friendly habitat.

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Sweet! That's what I want! :-P

I think though that the small house in big bear will be more of a modern interperitation of a small cabin. For a good idea, go look at HIVE MODULAR and there small B-Line Series.

for the land in new mexico, i think i'm going to go with 3 units side by side and then adobe over... The steel will only be used for structural purposes. It will be interesting on how we insulate and then let the area breathe.

-bix
 
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