Also, cutting windows and doors only compromise the structure of cargo containers if they get too big or too many. The durn things are corrugated sheet steel, for pete's sake! Stacked and grouped in interesting combinations, and thoroughly insulating, they can be really great. Hubby and I designed, but haven't built, a plan where one would be bridged across two spaced apart with their open ends facing each other. The area between would be all glass. Hubby was determined to include one set on end for a library lined staircase! He had two more set parallel across from the stack about double their thickness apart with a great shed roof over the whole thing.
Think of them as single room building blocks that just need finishing. I think it was in Dwell that I saw a weekend party house built of containers. The kitchen one had one entire side cut open. I'm sure they compensated for the structural loss.
pepper
__._,_.___----- Original Message -----From: Neal ChabotSent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 2:39 PMSubject: Re: [papercreters] papercrete covered containers -was- Re: ugly eco home
It is silly to think that PC "shrinks away" when Mikey has stated otherwise, so you don't have to end up where you think you do. Even if in the worse case it were to shrink away, you would still be left with an even greater insulation due to the air pocket.One would have to know more about these structures to know whether cutting openings would compromise it, but there are many photos online and feature articles in magazines such as "Dwell" showing that they can be much more than a "tin box".Neal----- Original Message -----From: Joyce EI don't believe I would want to live in a tin box like that. I like
windows, and lots of natural sunlight...... Cutting windows into those shipping containers compromises the structure. Besides, what happens when the PC shrinks away from the metal as it cures? Exactly, you have a very hot, or very cold wall.......
Joyce in SE Ohio
Neal Chabot wrote:
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> A shipping container is nothing but the skeleton of a structure, ...
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