With the countries developed, people consumed more resources from nature. And all of us facing a global issue, scarcity. Nowadays, more and more designers tried on new material, which can be sustainable in some way. These kind of material can be recycled and reused to another project when they were deconstructed.
One of the types that I really interested in while I was doing my project last year, was the containers.
As we can see plenty of containers along the wharf, people use it to deliver goods and most of them were abandoned and forgot after used. Therefore, some of the designer make full use of the containers and turn it into a space which people could lived in. The points is if the space in container needs to be remoulded, it can use a new one to replace. And it is easy to dismantle and move to a new place and to rebuild. It is very convenient for some temporary use.Beside the size of the container is so close to the room size,so it is perfectly fit in interior or architecture design.
One of the project that done by Japanese architect, Shigeru Ban, used plenty of container to build an removable museum, called Normadic Museum. For the Nomadic Museum, Ban specified walls of used shipping containers (which can be rented in every major city), supporting a roof frame and tensile PVC membrane braced by trusses atop two colonnades. The 152 long and short containers are stacked four-high and attached at the corners with twist-lock connectors to form a chequerboard of solid and void.
The spaces between are filled with a diagonal membrane providing the same protection from wind and rain as the roof. For the columns, two Sm-long, 750mm diameter Sonotubes (used for pouring concrete pillars) are bolted together, and smaller tubes are joined to form trusses that read as pediments at either end. The reception area and shops are also made of paper tubes and honeycomb panels. This inner structure, along with lighting and wood-slat walkways, can be quickly disassembled, packed, and shipped to the next location in eight containers.
Architectural membrane filled the opening between the containers.
The inside space and structure of the Nomadic Museum. The roof was made of paper tube columns and trusses that span the width of the exhibition space.
