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Hercules: the new efficient buildings
The work is about an elaborated idea that came to mind after observing different methods of building in different locations of Europe, and also looks for the variation and/or improvement to these latter. The element treated in the work is a static building core that allows the connection of different types of housing through anchors. The result will be a Multi-Family Building formed with this main core structure and containers attached to it. The houses will be formed by maritime containers commonly used for overseas transport. The idea is to give a second chance to those containers that will not be used anymore for this purpose. The multi-family structure will be designed not to create much environmental impact and try to make the most of recycling and its versatility, together with maximum self-sufficiency. It will study, not only the element, but also its parts individually and the possible placing in the current market. This style of construction allows the mobility of people along with their homes. A clear example is in the United States where the user buys and sells the location his home will be in, and then they transfer there. This project presents a similar idea but with a slightly different approach; the building will be more practical and adapted to the final user needs than the model followed by United States. Given that homes will be built by different modules, we could break the element down to the size of the container and thus, it will be easily transportable by trucks or even convertible into "Motorhome" and be able to travel around the world. These modular elements are made to measure; taking into account the interior space of the container, we would need at least two containers to make it viable. We have seen that building with a single container would not meet the minimum to be legally habitable. On the other hand, with two we could obtain a house of 56m2 that could be expanded. The extension could be both at the same level (expanding the base area), and at different levels resulting in modern single-family homes comparable to those built in a traditional manner.
Hercules: the new efficient buildings
The work is about an elaborated idea that came to mind after observing different methods of building in different locations of Europe, and also looks for the variation and/or improvement to these latter. The element treated in the work is a static building core that allows the connection of different types of housing through anchors. The result will be a Multi-Family Building formed with this main core structure and containers attached to it. The houses will be formed by maritime containers commonly used for overseas transport. The idea is to give a second chance to those containers that will not be used anymore for this purpose. The multi-family structure will be designed not to create much environmental impact and try to make the most of recycling and its versatility, together with maximum self-sufficiency. It will study, not only the element, but also its parts individually and the possible placing in the current market. This style of construction allows the mobility of people along with their homes. A clear example is in the United States where the user buys and sells the location his home will be in, and then they transfer there. This project presents a similar idea but with a slightly different approach; the building will be more practical and adapted to the final user needs than the model followed by United States. Given that homes will be built by different modules, we could break the element down to the size of the container and thus, it will be easily transportable by trucks or even convertible into "Motorhome" and be able to travel around the world. These modular elements are made to measure; taking into account the interior space of the container, we would need at least two containers to make it viable. We have seen that building with a single container would not meet the minimum to be legally habitable. On the other hand, with two we could obtain a house of 56m2 that could be expanded. The extension could be both at the same level (expanding the base area), and at different levels resulting in modern single-family homes comparable to those built in a traditional manner.
Hercules: the new efficient buildings
2018-07-27
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Electronic Resource
English
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720
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