Architectural Research Outline

Construction – Boxes, all sizes and shapes – cereal boxes, tissue boxes, appliance boxes, packaging,

Levitt and Sons needed to find building solutions that would suit the taste of their buyers, would be cost efficient thus resulting in an inexpensive price, and could be produced rapidly and in high yield. To solve this challenge Levitt and Sons designed a single level, four-room home based on the traditional American Cape Cod style.7 This simple design was modified to form four basic designs that were to be replicated. To produce the homes as quickly as possible Levitt and Sons based their construction strategy on the automobile assembly line of Henry Ford. Instead of moving the parts down an assembly line, Levitt and Sons move the labor along the product line.8 This method, along with the incorporation of off-the-shelf products, allowed for the rapid production of homes. The money and time saved on production and design allowed homes to sell at a lower price. These small homes

The exterior “Queen Anne” design of this piece of Americana is a prime example of the convergence of architectural styles, coextending the converging cultures of pre 1900s America. This is why our team decided to continue this architectural theme throughout the addition, and detached garage. This was accomplished through the repetition of the key design

Home based situations such as these, extra time really is the most affordable means to fix space needs. Besides, extra time gives people more flexibility options. The area could be built and designed in whatever way the owner selects, instead of being limited to some certain

Space for expansion: this factor component falls under the designing and architectural stages. It is important to understand that maritime is one of the most dynamic sectors of transport. The last two decades have seen unprecedented growth in maritime activities with large cargo and cruise ships being developed. This implies that the amount of goods or the number of passengers that a port handles have been on a gradual rise over these years. Consequently, the architectural designs are tailored to meet such requirements. New and redesigned facilities will require effective security provisions such as secure buffer zones, closed-circuit

The Winsome Manufacturing Company is about to embark upon an exciting new venture: the creation of a room-sized plastic storage unit suitable for homeowners to place outside of the home. The project stakeholders for this proposed endeavor will draw upon ever facet of the company's resources, including the design, production, purchasing, shipping, sales, and marketing departments; the suppliers of the raw input goods; company shareholders, the company that is responsible for the delivery of the product to consumers; organizers of home sales events where we sell our products and above all our loyal consumers.

They are also incredibly cheap, $1500-$2000 is an average price paid for a used container. For an approximate 24m2 area (size of 40ft container) to be built for that price before fixtures and fittings is unobtainable using conventional building methods.

In addition, SMEs technologies are easier to acquire, transfer and adopt such that there are better positioned to satisfy limited demands brought about by small and

Shipping container home is a new emerging industry for those looking for something new, sleek, modern, affordable structure but strong and quick deployed. However, as shipping container home is quite new, few concerns remain to be responded in order to gain people’s trust in its reliability. One of the main concerns is the insulation.

Making the best use of the materials in the building is sometimes difficult to judge and will depend to some extent on the taste of the viewer. One approach to considering the way that the materials have been used is to determine the extent to which the wood and stone and brick and steel and glass and blocks have been allowed to

The lift shafts are circled by spiral staircases, constructed from precast reinforced concrete these provided the link between many of the staggered levels. The capsules composed of prefabricated residential apartment cells fitted in a spiral formation around the primary towers allowing for the interchanging between the two structures (fig.2). They are made from welded lightweight steel-truss boxes and clad in galvanised, rib-reinforced steel panels at a factory where the interiors were also fitted out (Weston 168). These capsules are also coated in a layer of rust prevention paint and a glossy spray of Kenitex, an impervious weatherproof plastic with an estimated 20 year life span. Each capsule was designed to be able to be moved from one location to another at any time by clipping onto the towers with flexible joints and was cantilevered and independent from the primary structure. However the concept of having several cells joining to form large units for larger families was never tested. Each tower is made up of 144 apartment blocks with one having nine floors while the other with 13 (Metalocus). These compartments comprise of a steel frame construction clad with sheet metal panelling closely resembling shipping containers in size and shape. The interiors were fully furnished with a permanently fitted bath, bed, seating, storage, television, air-conditioning unit and circular window (Lepik 118) (fig.3). These capsules

Summary of Small is Beautiful: Small is beautiful was published in 1973 it main message was to include people in economics. Schumacher looks at our economics system and criticises it. He describes how humans’ impacts economics and it’s not always in a good way. His aim was to warn us about how our use of resources is impacting our environment in a very dangerous away. Also Schumacher didn’t agree with the statement the bigger the better instead he said “Man is small and therefore small is beautiful” (pg131). In his eyes the bigger a company or country growth was the bigger the problems and more likely it would self-destruct. He found that it was better to be small and it was more efficient and

The buildings are being constructed using a system build with a steel frame and various prefabricated components, the blue plastic on the buildings is the vapour barrier for the thermal wall insulation before the exterior cladding has been fixed.

We liked a house with abundant natural light, high ceilings, and an open style contemporary design. The house will have a formal great room as well as a private family room, two bedroom suites on the first-floor, plentiful walk-in closets, and a square shaped dining room to fit a round table. In addition, various build-in wall display designs for art subjects, a large kitchen with picture window, and a sunroom den, a study right next to the master bedroom, plus the first floor laundry room and utility rooms. Essentially, all of our daily activities will on the first floor, but we need to have two more bedrooms for the kids to use when they come home at Xmas. Most importantly we need to have the basement, designed not like a basement, but an open layout high ceiling club house. We don’t like a range or a

You can use the Internet to locate containers that are already available in your area. If possible, inspect them before purchase. This is especially vital for used containers, which may have suffered damage during their previous use.