MDL 5.5X6
Site-Specific and Bluebrown has joined forces and launched Prefab Company Limited. The focus of this newly founded company is to further research and develop technology for prefabricated construction system in Thailand.
We have recently introduced the first product of our up coming product line. It is a small 34 square meter home with one bedroom, one bathroom, one living room and an outdoor patio with small kitchenette. The price of the home starts at 600,000.00 Thai Baht.
The home was designed around the concept of shipping container but with improved dimensions allowing higher ceiling height and wider width.
The structures are made from re-approprited or recycled steel elements where possible. The exterior finish is made from a wood product that has been engineered from saw dust and recycled milk bottles.
The home is available initially for Thai market with several roof options.
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R-2×20
This small container home was built by our collaborator – BlueBrown recently. It is a small home with one bedroom, one bathroom and a living area for a young family in Thailand.
It was designed using two twenty-foot containers and a prefabricated bathroom unit, as an exercise in the making of a good, affordable housing for Thais which our government cannot seems to manage.
This home is on the outskirt of Bangkok where temperature is always high. The house is insulated with recycled insulation material with a layer of roof above the containers to prevent the heat transmission into habitable areas.
Thank you BlueBrown for the photos.
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The plan for Eco Living 101 is finally here. It took a while for us to work it out with our associates.
First Floor Plan.
Second Floor Plan.
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Self-Contained in Texas
New York Times published an article on the Cinco Camp. This house the AIA housing awards. Living just cannot be simplier than this house.
The corten steel, the grassy landscape, the yucca and the open sky combine to make this a very interesting habitat.
Found via NY Times and Container-Life.
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Paco Cube
This is a fun little project.
Jo Nagasaka and Schemata Architecture Office have developed “Paco Cube” – an all in one living unit.
Even though Paco Cube measures just 3m x 3m x 3m, it contains the essential equipment for everyday living.
And you can put it anywhere.
Found via Designboom.
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House of Ruins
Not only that NRJA had done a great job adapting a ruin structure into an livable home. This house has amazing textures on its surfaces.
The juxtaposition of existing stone wall against the concrete against the glass initiates wonderful dialogue among the materials. Grass, gravels and steel grates has been interplayed to create magnificent protected courtyard.
Found via Arch Daily.
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Eco Living 101 – Model Home
To build an earth-friendly house is not as simple as placing some solar panels on your roof. So when Site-Specific and Buatalah Studio were asked to design an exhibition under the theme 0f ‘Green Home Effects’ for Baan Lae Suan Fair in Bangkok, they started from inside-out by questioning the audiences about their current living situations.
What they came up with was the concept for exhibition that circled around the 4R’s – reduce, reuse, recycle and renewable. The model home featured many examples of earth-friendly living including the use of grey water, growing your own food and being car smart. It was constructed of 4 reused shipping container and prefabricated modules. The home was designed for the family of three and it is roughly around 100 sq.m.
It also questioned the norm of house construction in Thailand, and wanted to demonstrate alternative construction methods.
Site-Specific is now developing a prefabricated construction system.
Thank you Amarin Printing & Publishing and Kanteera Sanguantung for the photographs.
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Recycled-Container Chic
This is an interesting article in the New York Times. I hope this idea will become more popular in Thailand.
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Freitag Store
As we all know, Freitag is a company that makes bags out of recycle materials such as car seatbelts and advertising tarps. So when the time came to design there flagship store, they went to Spillmann Echsle Architects whom designed them a store in Zurich out of 17 reused shipping containers. It is hard not to stare conspicuously at the result.
Found via Jetson Green.
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Port-a-Bach
A bach is a New Zealander’s term for small habitable structures, usually for holiday home or beach houses.
Atelier Workshop has built a bach out of a 20′ shipping container. This project deals with the limitation of the container beautifully. The space is very usable and bright.
Found via Treehugger.
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