Sentences with phrase «shipping container architecture»

LeBlanc is kind enough to note my criticisms of shipping container architecture in the article, where I go on about them being «too small, too expensive, and too toxic»; Daniel Kroft of Giant Containers rebuts them, noting that they have lots of steel lying around to reinforce openings, air conditioning is easy with modern mini-split units, and spray - foam insulation does wonders at keeping it all airtight.

We complain about shipping container architecture all the time on TreeHugger, usually prefaced with that tired phrase «jump the shark» and this 5000 square foot house they built in Brooklyn is just completely nuts.

Nobody does shipping container architecture like Lot - ek, one of the originals.

LOT - EK is one of the true pioneers of shipping container architecture; ten years ago we called them «among the best of the small crew of architects working with shipping containers, which are rarely seen in the urban context.»

There is a great appeal to shipping container architecture; the idea of reusing the strong steel boxes seems so green.

shipping container architecture surveys the contemporary condition of the recent typology, showcasing a range of innovative projects and concepts.

This is shipping container architecture at its best: It is meant to move, part of a transportation technology, not just a dumb empty box.

There are two ways to look at shipping container architecture; they can be cheap boxes permanently installed and simply enclosing space, or they can be part of a much larger global transportation and handling system, filled with stuff rather than air.

LOT - EK were among the pioneers of shipping container architecture, and they are still pushing the envelope.

He trashes shipping container architecture: «Why are people recycling perfectly good shipping containers into narrow houses with low

But does this kind of shipping container architecture make sense?

This isn't really shipping container architecture, but it is demountable and relocatable and transportable inside shipping containers, and that is what shipping containers do best: They want to move.

Not exact matches

The architecture firm HyBrid, which specializes in designing buildings from recycled shipping containers, created this solar - powered house for Sunset Magazine.

Many of the artists have dealt directly with the architecture of the shipping container, using it as a starting point for their projects.

Lloyd may have questioned the validity of shipping containers in architecture as being too toxic, too inconvenient and too small.

I really do believe that there is a role for shipping containers in architecture, and that they can be very green.