Adequacy of shipping containers, development of a set of blocks housing from overlapping modules, previously conceived as different types, being able to serve as emergency housing.

 

The proposal is self-sufficient and zero emissions, while contributing to the reuse of shipping containers - excessively abundant and cheap - as a module and structural base for a building system.

 

Location: Zona Franca, Barcelona.

General cross-section

Analysis of weather, shadows, wind and solar radiation to be able to adopt appropriate passive strategies.

Wind Analysis:

Solar radiation analysis:

Geographic climate analysis:

Shadow analysis of the set of buildings:

Sun analysis:

Were also adopted active strategies.

Photovoltaic panel and batteries diagram:

Cogeneration diagram:

Rainwater collector diagram:

Recycling of grey water diagram:

Three floor typology block:

Housing typology:

House 1a:

House 1b:

House 1c:

House 2:

House 3:

Soils have different treatment of walls and ceilings. From inside to outside: floor tiles, polyethylene film, underfloor heating, DM, gypsum board and sheet rock metal of the container.

The union with the ground is made by metal profiles were anchored at each corner of the containers and these in turn were anchored to a concrete slab.

Among the containers and the plate was a separation of 15 cm to allow passage of air to avoid direct contact with moisture.

 

Vertical cutting blocks:

Horizontal cutting blocks:

The walls of the containers are made starting from the inside out by: plasterboard double plate, 50mm mineral wool ending with own container veneer.

For exterior walls are reinforced by other mineral wool layer and the other by sheet metal.

The roofs are insulated by the same materials. For the roofs of the last levels add a separate metal cover 15 cm which is what supports the photovoltaic panels.

Breakdown of materials: