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Shipping container homes have been a trend for a while, from reality TV shows to housing policy discussions. But the truth is that these homes are a lot more difficult to build than you might think.
It’s easy to think that housing solutions are purely technological, but many obstacles to housing aren’t in construction but in the policies surrounding homebuilding. Moreover, many of the supposed advantages of shipping containers turn out to be more complicated in reality.
Vox’s Phil Edwards spent a night in a shipping container home to see how the experience of staying in a shipping container compares with the reality of building one.
Further Reading:
Mark Hogan’s 2015 opinion piece about shipping containers is a great introduction to the topic:
Belinda Carr’s debunking of shipping containers gets into more building science detail:
She’s also an even-handed critic and made a video about five shipping container successes:
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I saw the title and I thought "is this going to be a rip off of Belinda Carr's video?" And was pleasantly surprised when you featured her in the video.
The problem with a lot of these "affordable" solutions such as shipping containers and 3D printed houses is the only thing they really eliminate from normal house construction is the framing step, which in the grand scheme of things is not even that expensive when it comes to house construction.
So this dude asked people who already have a negative perception of shipping containers, cool
That was a poetic video.
so the guy that desines houses that charges you for zoning and planning and layouts does like somthing that can be scrapped together by a novis for 4 or 8 grand ok.
I'm not someone who understands about housing, but if you look from the other side of the world where the rules for building a house and the necessities of life are not as complicated as shown in the video, maybe Container is an easy and cheap option
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I'm not sure which architecture school she went to, but when I was at architecture school there was not a focus on modularity and to make everything modular. There was one studio professor who who did offer one course in that, but only 12 people took it per year. In addition, my architecture school did teach us how to put in real life elements such as plumbing, electrical and heating, and doors and windows.
Why is the abandoned house infront of his air bnb rental. Kinda an eye sore
Terrible sound levels, poor quality video wth vox
I first watched about these houses on Belinda Carr's channel
This video is low key overated
Hmm… Sounds to me like a couple of architects who want to be paid to design a HOUSE are trying to steer people away from containers…
You never have to live in a shipping container in the safe space town of CHILLINGBOURNE – everyone has a house.
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Belinda is kind of an egomaniac. But I love how she takes time to look into the math and economics of each topic she talks about to provide you with factual evidence.
Just dont listen to those 2 nay sayers. Internet is full of experts with various qualifications.
The fact of the matter is, as a starting point they are unbeatable. Plus this vid infers that this is a new concept and that there isn't a legacy of SC home builders who share their knowledge. In my research, nobody I've spoken to, regrets SC's as the building blocks for their homes. As for insulation, it can and has been done a lot cheaper than the options mentioned here. Struts to compensate for additional weight at places the container wasn't designed to bear weight on, like a 4×4 steel tube beam. As for foundations, it depends on the state, (US), some states require you to bore and cast a concrete or similar, set of legs or plinths, other states are satisfied with a bed of sand or gravel and railway ties.
Home owners dont like them, who see this as a threat to the value of their homes.
At 6:18 …Have you ever heard of Mobile Homes??? They are much better…
8 feet wide.. That's small.. They are great for storage that's it..
Sounds like a silicon valley VC idea.
This is not new…Back in the 1930's they were known as "Shotgun Shacks"…
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vox got paid for this.
What about mobile homes?
Spent most of this video thinking this was Tyler Oakley
I worked on Building Code for a decade. When seacans became a “thing” we were laughing for the whole decade.