Kathy Tafel - KTainer With partners, I own land in a remote part of California. It has wild beauty, and some need of environmental restoration. Our first years there were spent in basic infrastructure such as water and road. To be there on a more regular basis, though, we needed to not spend hours setting up and tearing down a tent each time we visited. My partners built a yurt. Challenge Create a livable structure that I make with mostly my labor, accomplishable in a remote location. Considerations Waste Everything must be carried out or disposed of onsite. Erosion There is a winter stream 100 feet from the site. Atmosphere The temperature can go below freezing in winter and reach 115° in summer, with generally a 40-50° temperature swing during the day. Expansion I did not want to have a structure that I would outgrow and then need to upgrade. Time Had the luxury of spending some months focusing on project, but wanted all future projects to be doable in a weekend between work. Money Thought Aesthetic Material Progress
Acre Comparison of 1 Acre with some Imperial and metric units of area (detailed view) The acre is a unit of area used in the imperial and U.S. customary systems. It is equivalent to 43,560 square feet. An acre is about 40% of a hectare or about 75% the size of an American football field. The acre is commonly used in the United States, Antigua and Barbuda[1] American Samoa,[2] the Bahamas,[3] Belize,[4] the British Virgin Islands,[5] the Cayman Islands,[6] Dominica,[7] the Falkland Islands,[8] Grenada,[9] Guam,[10] the Northern Mariana Islands,[11] India, Jamaica,[12] Montserrat,[13] Myanmar, Pakistan, Samoa,[14] St. Lucia,[15] St. The international symbol of the acre is ac, and is defined as 1/640 of a square mile. During the Middle Ages, an acre was the amount of land that could be ploughed in one day with a yoke of oxen and measured by one chain in width (22 yards), and one furlong, or 10 chains in length (220 yards), yielding 4840 square yards. Description[edit] South Asia[edit]
Container House, Shipping Container Homes Photo: flickr.com Steel shipping container homes, also called storage container homes, offer a fast, green, and sustainable approach to building. These intermodal steel building units (ISBUs) are manufactured in a factory-controlled environment so they are standardized and reliable. They can be used to build an average-sized home with almost no wood. In North Charleston, SC, Tampa Armature Works (TAW) and local contractors quickly and easily constructed a container house, blending it perfectly into the surrounding neighborhood. Pre-Fitting Off-Site When building with ISBUs, the building blocks are readymade and ready to transport. TAW uses Supertherm insulative coating, which is sprayed on both sides of the remaining container walls to prepare the house for heating and cooling loads. Attaching the Home to its Foundation A shipping container house sits on a traditional concrete block foundation. Once secured, adjacent units are welded to each other above and below.
Cubic Inspirations- ISBU Shipping Container Designs and Plans Cubic Inspirations- Exclusive from ISBU-Info.org is a permanent new weekly feature Our exclusive new Designs, Floor Plans, and Architectures that will inspire you to jump into the ISBU trend. They will include various designs of prefabs, homes, cabins, apartments, offices, and, business pods. Realistic 1,2,3,4 and 5 bedroom designs you will be proud to buy, build, own, or sell and profit. Check the links to the right for larger conventional homes and apartments. ___________________________ All photo's, templates and graphics 2009® Qube 360. _______________________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2010 ISBU Association International Cubic Inspirations ® ISBU Association International All Rights Reserved STEP 1- Choosing a good quality used shipping container that will soon become an ISBU module for your construction project.
Ontario Eco House Operates Off the Grid Like this article? Share it: This eco house in the Muskoka Lakes area of northern Ontario is the perfect peaceful getaway with style to boot! Designed by Canadian architects Altius Architecture, the 3,200-sq.-ft. stone house blends beautifully with the rocky Canadian Shield backdrop. Please Leave a Comment Peter Johnsson Swordsmith ARMA is proud to bring to the historical fencing community the wisdom, curiosity, and insight of another of the most sincere and humble swordsmiths now working. A researcher and true craftsman as well as historical reenactor, his original work, unique knowledge, and dedicated research are helping raise the craft to new standards of accuracy. Based in Sweden, Peter travels frequently to work research on historical swords and work on reproductions. His views parallel and underscore much of what the ARMA has been expressing for years about real and replica sword. 1. 2. At the age of eight my father gave me a small anvil as birthday present. 3. 4. “I tend to stray into periods that are less well known to me. If I had to pick one from the multitude of sword types, it would be the classic Medieval long-sword. 5. “That would be the reconstruction of the sword of Svante Nillson Sture. 6. 7. 8. “Again, if I had to choose one sword it would be the Svante Nillson Sture. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
SustainableSources.com: Shipping Container Housing « Shipping Container Housing Tutorial: How to Make a Modern Coffee Table with a Wood Pallet Guest post by Luisa of Happy Serendipity blog. Hi there! Im Luisa and I blog at happyserendipity.com and Im happy to be here today showing you how I designed and constructed our new coffee table. Its a real low-budget project for which I didnt need much and that took about 3 hours of work. What is needed: 1 euro-pallet from a supermarket (they throw those away anyway so I got mine here for free)2 wooden plates in the right size for the top and bottom2 square timbers8 connecting boltsa grinding machinea power drilla box full of tools and screwssome paint and 4 wheels (not in the picture) I placed everything how I wanted it to be then screwed 4 screws into the plate to connect it with the pallet. Then I placed the square timbers where they belonged and fixed them with the connecting bolts. After that I took some time to mend some parts with the grinding machine. I decided on a dirty white paint with a turquoise doily pattern as a highlight. But the result was pretty.
Building with Shipping Containers by Kelly Hart An idea whose time seems to have arrived is the use of stockpiled shipping containers as modular units for building homes. Because of the balance of trade in the United States, these hefty steel boxes are piling up in ports around the country and posing a storage problem. According to David Cross of www.sgblocks.com, "a container has 8000 lbs of steel which takes 8000 kwh of energy to melt down and make new beams etc... Each container measures 8 feet wide by 40 feet long by 9 feet tall. According to KPFF Consulting, a structural engineering firm in St. As for their energy efficiency, they claim that when the appropriate coatings are installed, the envelope reflects about 95 percent of outside radiation, resists the loss of interior heat, provides an excellent air infiltration barrier and does not allow water to migrate in. This finished house is virtually indistinguishable from conventional housing. Twenty-one thousand containers hit American shores every day of the year.
Blog : Living Inside the Box: Creative Eco-Friendly Design Using Shipping Containers Most of us have seen a tower of shipping containers at least once in our life. Throughout the US there are over 700,000 abandoned shipping containers. As the US moves away from being a manufacturing economy, we receive many more of these containers than we use to export goods, creating a surplus of containers that, well, don’t contain anything. Reusing them for importing more goods is inefficient, since it’s usually less expensive to manufacture a new container than to reuse an old one. Thus we are left with man-made mountains of empty steel boxes sitting in shipyards across the United States. As the world scrambles for ways to become greener, people are looking for ideas for recycling these old containers, and putting them to some good use. The most popular type of shipping container construction is modular construction. People are also looking to shipping containers to solve problems of world housing. Shipping container construction is the new craze in modern architecture.
Tips For Small Space Living | Decorating Small Spaces | Small Space Living | Small Living Spaces A living room is designed as a multipurpose room which is used for welcoming guest, relaxation and sharing views with family members. It’s the heart of the home. A small living room may not create a problem as long as you can keep it warm and cozy. If you have a small living room, here are some tips and ideas to make it look interesting. Use furniture such as ottomans and wind wheel which can be used for multi-purposes.Ottomans: It is very useful for small spaces as it can be easily moved around the room and is used as a table or as foot rest. ( This Picture is Contributed by "Avantika Arora") Place the furniture in such a manner as it doesn’t create any problem while coming in or going out. Use the folding tables or folding sofas that provide the utilization of space as a dining area or guest room. ( This Picture is Contributed by "Upasna Jindal") Avoid ceiling lights such as chandelier in small space as it reduces the height of the room. ( This Picture is Contributed by"Rajni Jhabak")