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Shipping container architecture is a form of architecture that uses steel intermodal containers (shipping containers) as the main structural element. It is also referred to as cargotecture or arkitainer , portmanteau words formed from " cargo " and " architecture ".
Container City II at Trinity Buoy Wharf in September 2012. Container City is the name given to two pieces of shipping container architecture on the Leamouth Peninsula. It is principally a means of utilising standard forty-foot equivalent unit shipping containers, at the end of their life, to produce flexible accommodation and offices at low cost.
A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes .
As part of the shipping-container project, Citiq also invited architecture students to contribute concepts for the Mill Junction conversion, with the aim of designing a "space that will not only ...
An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply "container") is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – such as from ships to trains to trucks – without unloading and reloading their cargo. [1]
Carla Gautier is an architect from Puerto Rico and founder of Konti Design, who focuses on sustainable and resilient designs by converting shipping containers into functional homes and business ...
A container park is a type of outdoor shopping or dining park in which the businesses are typically housed in shipping ... Shipping container architecture; References
A containerized housing unit, usually abbreviated as CHU (and sometimes called containerized living unit or CLU) is an ISO shipping container pre-fabricated into a living quarters. [1] Such containers can be transported by container ships , railroad cars , planes , and trucks that are capable of transporting intermodal freight transport cargo.