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Develop schematic design - including container massing configuration, floor plans, and elevations. Locate local or regional shipping container re-sellers and shops capable of performing modifications and interior fit-outs.

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ElJay Arem. Ewan Argo. Popular in Law. Yoo Si Jin. Antonio Rebosa. Las Vegas Review-Journal. LEVI P. Ella Kriziana Cruz. But drawing your shipping container house floor plan and developing the conceptual design, is where the good stuff starts. For real. Earlier, we said we were going to explore how shipping containers are a perfect fit for the design build process. The floor plan is a great example. The 8' width of a shipping container is roughly a small room. Arrange two containers along their length, remove some corrugation, reinforce, and you've got a medium to large room.

Remove all the interior corrugation, reinforce, and you have the equivalent of a New York City industrial loft. Containers are "design placeholders" for the perimeter and interior of your home. They allow you to easily conceptualize the interior space and building massing, simultaneously.

Buy a tape measure. Even if you have one. A new one. Make sure it has really good action. That it fits well in your hand, and compliments your attire. It will be your new favorite accessory. Start measuring things. When you are thinking about dimensions of rooms for your shipping container floor plan and not sure what they should be, go measure a space that works and is comparable in size.

Measure some more. Before you start drawing and sketching, make a wish list of all the functional elements. A schedule of all the square footage components including bedrooms, baths, kitchen, dining room, living spaces, garage, etc. Whatever that total square footage is, multiply it by a factor of 1.

Divide that by and you know how many 40' containers to use. This is your starting point. Get some grid and trace paper. Floor plan software is readily available, but stick low tech for the conceptual sketches.

A template file of containers and interior elements is available here to download. They are all scaled equally so you can mix the interior elements with the containers and quickly work some simple floor plans. Houses and apartments in dense urban areas are very small.

The average total floor area in a Japanese home is 1, square feet three 40' containers. This should be an additive as well as a reductive process. Remember, flat sites are best as they require minimum excavation and grading. If you are planning a build which consists of more than one container, you should talk with an engineer or contractor early. Foundation costs are potentially very expensive, especially if the bearing capacity of the soil is poor or land substantially sloped.

The three basic types of foundations are - full basement, crawl space, and slab-on-grade. Energy code compliance and your site's location, thermal zone, and climate factor strongly here and will determine insulation requirements.

Keeping the building warm in the winter and cool in the summer with minimal mechanical system help will do much to drive down monthly utility costs. The design section has information on passive vs.

You input the square footage of each core envelope element wall, roof, slab, etc. This will determine the binding energy code and allow you to play with different R values insulation levels until the envelope design is in compliance and thereby setting the required R-values. Even if your project is small or not subject to energy code compliance, the REScheck exercise is worth the time. Once you know the required R-values for the core envelope elements you can begin detailing.

For illustration, consider a cold climate that requires an R value for exterior walls. This could be achieve with batt R 3.

Mechanical - Air circulation and temperature regulation. All these options must be thoroughly planned for, just as with the build out of a typical wood-frame home. There are no short cuts and consulting with a contractor who specializes in these fields is highly recommended.

Typically, they are a communication tool between the designer and client as they vet through the design of the home. You can use hand sketches or utilize one of the many consumer modeling and drafting applications. But, they are for your own reference and not necessary for filing.

If you are, which is most cases, first thing to do is call the building department and get a permitting submittal checklist. Things typically required will be plans site, foundation, floors, and roof , elevations, land survey, water treatment septic and run-off , energy code compliance, structural drawings, and soils report. Also make sure to check which of these documents will need to be stamped by a licensed professional.

Bid and Construction Drawings Contract Documents. They should include drawings and specifications for all components and systems of the building. A complete set of Contract Documents provides a comprehensive, fully coordinated set of construction documents and specifications that the contractor uses to determine a guaranteed maximum or lump sum price, obtain necessary permits, coordinate with factory for modular components, and construct the project.

Even if you are planning on taking on the construction yourself or managing the project through sub-contractors, you should put together as detailed and extensive set of construction documents as possible. Putting the construction documents together will help tremendously in understanding the design and verifying the projected budget prior to construction.

Having done this prior to bidding the project will do three things; help get accurate pricing for budget development, assemble a list of general contractors to bid competitively for the project if you are not building yourself , and problem solve the design.

Typically, there is no single "best" method for all projects, and no method delivers fastest, cheapest, and highest quality simultaneously. What distinguishes each is the amount of design information and drawings available prior to construction and whether the build price is fixed or relative to actual costs. The design and manufacturing of shipping container homes is a viable alternative to conventional construction for many reasons, but despite a strong showing of successful container projects, building with shipping containers is still in it's early stages.

From the design perspective, there are many design entities with "Kit" shipping container home offerings. These however, are very far from turnkey. The ones that do, have very small custom shops with limited output which is highly customized and high in price. Typically, they have a "stock" catalogue of very base shipping container home designs to purchase turnkey. Some can provide customized solutions design to your specs , at higher cost points.

Even a small one. There are thousands of materials, pieces, and tasks involved. Unless you are a builder or experienced it's intimidating. Planning is very essential in our entire endeavor. First, you to Establish planning and design goals. Define and evaluate space. Review benchmark standards, codes, and guidelines. In Australia, Vitalmark constructions posted these building permit requirements on their site, Getting a Building Permit: Why do I need a permit?

All major building work carried out in Australia requires a permit issued by the local Council. Building without a permit can result in heavy fines. Who gets the permit? In most cases your builder will obtain all the proper permits required for your building to commence.

However you may wish to manage this part of the process yourself. Whatever the choice, the owner is liable for all costs relating to the permit, and allocation of the process should be clearly stipulated in the building contract. The Permit Checklist Getting your building permit is the first real step towards construction, but before you make that step you'll need to take many little steps gathering together the following documentation.

The overall form:. Certificate of title for your property, a copy is available from the Titles Office Proof of your ownership of the property OR proof that you are purchasing the property under Section 9AA of the Sale of Land Act full details of services in any easement 45 degree Angle of Repose details.

Note: Other countries vary on some degree of documents required in applying building permits. Getting to work Here we will talk about how to set-up your own container house assuming that you have completed the task in setting your objectives and the necessary permits to establish your own container house. First, We will take a design layout for your container house. The illustration below illustrated the most common container house to consider. But, of course you can still make your own design.

On above layout we will take 2 40 footer ISO container. This will be enough to give us a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, a living and dining room. You can used traditional way of lay outing foundation or through the aid of computer aided design. If you consider using traditional method pencil and paper a sketch drawing will do.

Then when you have the initial layout out you can continue draw its initial floor plan design. In this case it will be much easier if you will used Computer Assisted Design Software such as 3d homes Architect, Punch home design or sketch up.

For easy visualization and faster rendition of your house design, the first two software will of much ease. The software thou design for building wooden or concrete houses yet you can make used of its many features to come up with the design of your container house.

After all container house is also an architectural structures. Using these software you do not need to worry about architectural standard since it is basically provided in the softwares. The table above indicates the calculated space for ISO container. Those surfaced area will be useful in calculating space divisions for different areas in the house. House Elevations Door and window must be. Front Elevation Site preparation: Before you purchase you container, it is wise to prepare the site first.

This includes cleaning the site, flatten the area where you will place the containers. For flattening the area we can used the pounding tool or you can just used flat board for flattening.

Flattening activity is most useful when using slab foundation but still looks well for just concrete footings. Anyways, after preparing the site we can now proceed in laying the foundation. For a foot shipping container house: To build the foundation for foot container buildings may differ in style depending on its advantages. What are most used are the Concrete blocks for shipping containers, but they have to be reinforced with rebar.

A pin foundation can also be used because it is more environment-friendly. A typical slab on grade application for a sf three 40' containers shipping container home design can be a very good foundation.

A perimeter foundation wall of 24' x 40' made from precast concrete panels. Drainage system at the perimeter has to be excavated and trench is to be filled with gravel. These precast panels were to be dropped via crane tied together including insulation with exterior water proofing membranes.

The respective locations in plan of utilities water, electrical, and gas supply lines are run to the base of the foundation.

There should be back-fillings, soil compacted, gravel added, rebar lay out and then slab poured in the foundation walls. Using simple footings For the sample project above we can use simple footings instead of a concrete slab. Where two containers are joined the footing underneath that point should be 36"x36" and 16" deep. At any point that the structure must be supported with an internal column you must support the point load with another 24" square footing.

Your going to want to form up two squares per footing about 8" above one another and at least 3" clear of the soil. Note: On some ISO shelters, some of the primary structural components may be concealed within the wall, roof, and floor panels. The areas where the adjacent panels join will be thoroughly inspected. This inspection will meet the criteria for the Wall Beams and the Roof Beams.

Internationally standard fitting casting located at the eight corners of the container structure to provide means of handling, stacking and securing containers. Specifications are defined in ISO Vertical structural member located at the four corners of the container and to which the corner fittings are joined.

Lateral structural member situated over the door opening and joined to the corner fittings in the door end frame. Lateral structural member at the bottom of the door opening and joined to the corner fittings in the door end frame.

The structural assembly at the rear door end of the container consisting of the door sill and header joined at the rear corner fittings to the rear corner posts to form the door opening. Lateral structural member situated at the top edge of the front end opposite the door end of the container and joined to the corner fittings.

Lateral structural member situated at the bottom edge of the front end opposite the door end of the container and joined to the corner fittings. The structural assembly at the front end opposite the door end of the container consisting of top and bottom end rails joined at the front corner fittings to the front corner posts. Longitudinal structural member situated at the top edge of each side of the container and joined to the corner fittings of the end frames.

Longitudinal structural member situated at the bottom edge of each side of the container and joined to the corner fittings to form a part of the understructure. Lateral structural member attached to the bottom side rails that supports the flooring.

An assembly consisting of bottom side and end rails, door sill when applicable , cross members and forklift pockets. Reinforced tunnel installed in pairs situated transversely across the understructure and providing openings in the bottom side rails at ISO prescribed positions to enable either empty capacity or empty and loaded capacity container handling by forklift equipment.

The plate welded to the bottom of each forklift pocket opening or part of bottom siderail. The forklift pocket strap is a component of the forklift pocket. Recessed area in the forward portion of the understructure to accommodate transport by a gooseneck chassis. This feature is more common in forty foot and longer containers.

Refer to Figure 4. A material constructed of laminates of fiberglass, polyester resins, and plywood, also known as sandwich panel. Corrugated or flat sheet steel, a riveted or bonded aluminum sheet and wall post assembly, FRP, foam and beam, aluminum, or honeycomb material that forms the side wall or end wall.

Interior or exterior intermediate vertical component to which sheet aluminum or steel is riveted or welded to form a wall panel. Encapsulated vertical component to which sheet aluminum or steel is bonded to form a wall panel. This is found in foam and beam panels. A side wall panel of a corrugated steel configured with a flat portion used for the display of markings and placards.

A strip of thin metal installed at the bottom of the interior walls to protect the lower portion of the lining from damage by materials handling equipment during loading or unloading operations. A common name for a lining shield installed on the lower portion of the interior front end wall.

Two or more devices permanently attached to the side or end wall panel that provides openings for the exchange of air but not water between the outside and the container interior. Corrugated or flat sheet steel, sheet aluminum, FRP, or foam and beam and aluminum honeycomb panel that forms the top closure of the container. Lateral non-structural member attached to the top side rails and supporting the underside of the roof panel. Roof bows used with removable cover tarp assembly are unattached.

Not all container designs require roof bows. Encapsulated horizontal component to which sheet aluminum or steel is bonded to form a roof panel. An additional metal plate on the interior or exterior of the roof panel adjacent to the top corner fittings that provides protection of the roof panel or top rail components from misaligned handling equipment. Jargon for "tarpaulin" which is a waterproof and flexible fabric used for covering the top of an open-top container.

This covering is referred to as a "Tilt" in some countries. Plastic sheathed wire rope that is designed in accordance with TIR customs convention Refer to paragraph 4. Material that is supported by the cross members and bottom rails to form a load bearing surface for the cargo. The flooring is usually constructed of laminated wood planks, plywood sheets, or other composition material and is screwed or bolted to the cross members.