So you’ve never heard of people from other nations coming to the U.S. to advise Americans on how to fix complex problems? Hmmm, in the U.S. we call these folks ‘immigrants’ (see also ‘engineers’).

Everyone else: As for the housing, nothing is perfect so stop complaining. As a college student, I would have been thrilled to have these accomodations. Though compact, they certainly look more appealing than the run-down campus houses which reeked of old beer from previous years’ parties that I lived in. (And this was in the U.S. at an expensive private school where I was very lucky to get a graduates assistantship!)

I guess you are mixing up these shipping containers with other prefab student housing complexes in the Netherlands. The Keetwonen units in Amsterdam have a bathroom in which you definitely don’t have to lean over your toilet while taking a shower. Also there are no vibrating problems at all (there is no laundry machine within them; the complex has a Laundrette).

Furthermore, if all students are really unhappy with their home; why would there be a waiting list to get a room of appr. 2 years??

I (still) think it’s a brilliant and sustainable idea/solution!

Forget rent. Why is there the impression that having limited money should be equated with poor design? The reality is that you’re still paying. Okay, so it’s a box. However, the basic needs of us all, including the students I teach––to be clean, eat and study––should be accommodated in a comfortable fashion.

Perhaps, the designers should have lived in the containers for a time. Even better, how about consulting the students?

I love this project and idea.
Is someone out there who can give me more information about this project or any other ideas?
I would really really appreciate it neither do my students

@: kkhangal@yahoo.com

However it is possible to recycle shipping containers that are not suitable for transportation, as long as the frame is not out of site, that means has not received major structural damage. Many containers are left out of their function becouse of broken doors or other minor conditions. Containers are heavily loaded and must achieve high security standards.

There is as well the possibility that actual market rules (the fact of being cheaper to get brand new container in origin than shipping back empty units from destination) makes container market allow the possibility of using containers that have no other use to be upgraded to habitational units, really then achieving a recycling attitude.

Regards

a prime example of what could be done if planned right with some shipping containers.

This article here is a great start to something bigger and better. Personally, it would be a great starting point to some disaster relief situations. Use the containers to ship relief items, then use the container itself as a starting block to new housing.

If you look on zigloo.ca, you’ll see, it a great starting point for a house that then gets finished off quite nicely. repainted exterior gives it a new clean look and it retains the neat feature of corrugated steel.

With that said, I hate all the negative people who feel a need to be negative for no other reason then the fact that they ARE negative. Instead of bashing an idea, why not try to find solutions to the problems so that it can become an ever better, more effective, more appealing, more cost efficient, and possibly even more environmentally friendly. Negative people suck.

Distinto es un prototipo Kaufman–Kaufman.

Usado como espacio para estudiar o como oficinas, en mi caso, no me gustaria estudiar o trabajar en un lugar asi. Tal vez es tiempo de entender que los legos son un juego de niños… no de arquitectos.