Container building
A container building is a building that is constructed from containers using a room-cell construction . They are equipped in such a way that people can live, live or work in them for a period of a few days to several years. The size of these buildings can range from individual containers to multi-story buildings. A collection of container buildings is also called a container village .
Often these are temporary buildings that serve to meet acute space requirements at short notice and are dismantled again after a short time. Containers are mainly used when this type of construction offers significant advantages over on-site buildings due to its modularity and mobility . These can be cost advantages or advantages in terms of a shorter construction period. The container modules can be reinserted elsewhere after dismantling. Container constructions are often used for building renovations, conversions or extensions.
Uses
The possible uses are widely spread, here are a few examples:
- office
- Construction office, public administration
- stay
- Construction site containers, school containers, accommodation for events
- Research and healthcare
- temporary clinics
- temporary laboratories ( laboratory containers )
- Living
- Construction site accommodation, refugee accommodation, student housing, military accommodation
- technology
- As a transmitter building : the complete transmitter can be assembled by the manufacturer and then only needs to be set up and connected.
- as a workshop building
- as a transformer house
- as an emergency power generator for mobile temporary replacement power supply
- as a data center building
- Exhibition stand construction
- Clubs, bars, advertising spaces, lounges
construction
There are two main types of container modules : with the dimensions of the ISO container standards, they are preferably used for modular structures. A distinction is made between edge containers (with more strongly insulated outer walls) and inner containers. The second type are roll-off container systems . The advantage here is that they can be implemented more quickly, since with these systems, apart from the transport vehicle (roll-off container vehicle), no additional lifting gear (truck crane or the like) is required. The possibilities for modular constructions are limited (especially vertically). Containers for roll-off systems are often only made in widths of 2.20 m.
Office containers are fully insulated and pre-installed. Most of the time, the individual containers are made in a panel construction, which enables a flexible arrangement of doors and windows. This also allows the individual modules to be connected to one another to create larger rooms.
Examples
- Container City in London , built 2001–2002 from 50 containers, 42 usage units, architect: Nicholas Lacey and Partners
- Keetwonen student residence in Amsterdam , built in 2005 from 1000 containers
- Nomadic Museum , a museum building made of 152 containers, which was repeatedly built in various cities between 2005 and 2008; Architect: Shigeru Ban
- Polar station Neumayer III , built from 99 containers, opened in 2009
- Atelier buildings base camp on an industrial wasteland in Zurich, built in 2009 from 135 containers
- CUBIG Mobilie modular, energy-efficient containers in timber frame construction.
- Modular medical equipment of the Bundeswehr
- Marine Rescue Center (MERZ) a container-supported rescue center of the German Navy, which can be installed on a task force supply (EGV) .
- Dornier Transportables Hospital as a concept for a modular medical facility for the Bundeswehr
- Mobile Animal Disease Control Center (MBZ)
- Modular accommodation for refugees (MUF), also called Tempohome , transitional apartments at the height of the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015
Trivia
The residential containers became known through the television program " Big Brother ", in which selected candidates live together in a residential container complex monitored by video cameras around the clock.
literature
- Jure Kotnik: Container Architecture: This Book Contains 6441 Containers. Links International, Barcelona 2008, ISBN 84-96969-22-3 .
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Han Slawik , Julia Bergmann, Mathias Buchmeier, Sonja Tinney (eds.): Container Atlas: Handbook of Container Architecture. Gestalten , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89955-294-2 .
- updated edition 2020, ISBN 978-3-8995-5686-5 .
- Philip Jodidio: Cabins, Huts, Cabanas. Illustrated by Cruschiform. Taschen, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-8365-5026-0 (German, French and English).
- Louis Meier: Shipping Container Homes: A Guide on How to Build and Move into Shipping Container Homes with Examples of Plans and Designs . 2017, ISBN 978-1-979-32290-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Keetwonen: Dorm in Amsterdam ( Memento of 19 November 2016 Internet Archive )
- ↑ Floor plans (.pdf) ( Memento of the original dated February 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Review (faz.net)
- ↑ French by Claire Debard, German translation by Gregor Runge.
