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treading lightly on the landscape, the building cantilevers out 27 meters to a point 18 meters above the terrain below.
franck bohbot traveled to richard neutra's VDL research house II and documented it, capturing two generations of architectural experimentation.
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the micro-hotel room is enclosed by a tiny topography of stepping terraces.
the architects say that the building, and the activity that takes place within it, is meant to transform the way in which buildings are designed, engineered, and built.
I really find this concept and design very much thinking outside the box. Fantastic use of old shipping containers! I wonder if some small scale designs could be done and then put through wind tunnel and also on the Earthquake simulation tables. The results would be interesting. With so many of our close nation neighbors still living in 3rd World conditions a group of these type of structures might help these people to get off the dirt floors and tin sheets as roves. In 2013 countries with money are throwing money at this global problem without making any head way. If a project to help get these people out of very bad conditions and it would provide jobs for the local people also! It has to start somewhere, why not a shipping container community! GREAT DESIGN! 🙂
OU PEUT-ON TROUVER CETTE MAISON EN FRANCE ?
OU PEUT-ON L’ACHETER ?
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I love shipping container homes, and I’ve seen some great ones, but this one does not convince me. The exposed galvanized pipes in the kitchen, etc kill me, and the grated walkway just looks cold to me- also, murder on bare feet.
What is this obsession with shipping containers ? Although it’s nice to see something so utilitarian transformed into something ‘beautiful’ (depending on taste)… I also sometimes wonder if the underlying symbolism is that humans are just objects to be stored. This widespread desire to make houses out of containers seems to have a post apocalyptic fatalism.
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Un rêve! Merveilleuse!
Thumbs up. Interesting use of materials and should be cost effective. With double glazing and shutters in winter, should be a warm residence d;-)
Incroyable! J’ai dessinee une maison tres proche de se design. Tres Tres cool!!! Bravo! Combien $$ pour la construcion?
Incredible! I also designed a house very close to this layout. Very very cool!! Bravo! How much did it cost?
I dunno about this. Seems pretty toy-like and cold on the inside. There is something kind of slap-dash about the whole interior, as though it was not planed for any permanence- like playhouse we ended up living in as grownups, because somehow we couldn’t make the transition to a real house.
I love the potential cost effectiveness, re-purposed materials, color, outside structural details and swiftness of putting up the building, and can see many uses as dwelling space, but…
So, what was the sq footage cost compared to “normal” construction? It looks to me as if there might have been some problems fitting the puzzle together?