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Habitat Container Magazine Smart and Sustainable Habitats Winter 2017
TECHNICAL PROPOSITION
TO THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISES
WINTER 2017
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein
Aggressive and innovative ideas are needed if we want to to make significant changes in this affordable housing crisis.
Conceptual design Memory
Habitat Container propose a proyectual experiment with discarded 40’ ISO shipping containers as a spacial-technological-expresive resource applied to generate 3 Strips of 4 story buildings.
In this way the proposition consist in developing a prototype block of 330x330 ft linked to a central vehicular circulation artery
This Block is organized in 3 modules of perimetral buildings enclosing a Community green space. Said space becomes the social/activity green area, center with commercial, recreational and sports equipment.
The strips are generated from juxtaposition of shipping containers and the addition in one or both sides of exterior circulation footbridges.
According to the position of said footbridges, the building is then halved with units facing both sides, and one only unit using the whole dimension of the shipping container each corner of the building.
The total development is done using 336 recycled ISO shipping containers, composing 184 households distributed in three buildings with different typologies that goes from studios (301.39 ft2 and 452.08 ft2) two room apartments, (452.08 ft2), three room apartments, (602.78 ft2 and 753.47ft2), and four room apartments, (990.28 ft2z
This constructive proposal contributes to reduce CO2 emissions incorporating different sustainable criteria.
Recycling: generating habitats reusing shipping containers, as floors, insulation and coating.
Energy savings: isolating the shell with low thermal transmittance coefficients materials, like projected cellulose, PVC carpentry, Insulating glass (IG), led lighting with high CRI values that guarantee a high energy use reduction. Renewable energy: Use of solar flat panels for hot water and solar photovoltaic panels for energy to illuminate common areas. Efficient water management: using differentiated circuits, the traditional drinking water for situations that really re- quire such quality, one for gray water that is used previous filtered for the circuit of flushes of toilets and cleaning of floors, and one for wastewater that is treated and reused for irrigation.
Ecological material: incorporation of wood from responsible sources, non contaminating materials and green roofs as a characteristic of the development
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