The Cabin Room Hotel

The Cabin Room Hotel

En suecia nos encontramos con este novedoso concepto de hotel basado en la cooperacion de conocidos arquitectos y diseñadores que dan como resultado una colección única de habitciones entre medio de árboles como denominador común. Esto abre una nueva dimensión en términos de ecoturismo y de estar metido en el corazón mismo de la naturaleza.

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10 Things to Consider in Using Shipping Containers

10 Things to Consider in Using Shipping Containers

Modern day pioneer John Wells is doing some interesting work in Alpine, Texas.  On his desert swath in The Field Lab, which is also referred to as The Southwest Texas Alternative Energy and Sustainable Living Field Laboratory, Wells is living off the grid and maintaining an interesting (and humorous) journal in the process.

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Varados en la costa – Oceanscope observatory

Varados en la costa – Oceanscope observatory

OceanScope observatory, Songdo New City – South Korea. Arquitectura, AnL Studio. Fotografías, Park So-Young and Chang Gil-Hwang.

Varados en la costa y anclados a una roca de hormigón armado, cinco contenedores de trasporte marino, reutilizados, definen la estructura del mirador “OceanScope”.

Con el objetivo de ofrecer un punto de vista elavado sobre el horizonte, los contenedores se han montado con una inclinación de 10, 20, 30 grados, de tal manera que los visitantes ascienden por las escaleras hasta la plataforma superior, donde pueden contemplar el espectáculo cotidiano de la puesta del sol.

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Casa de jardin de troncos.

Casa de jardin de troncos.
Via @dezainnet, a log home seemingly carved out of a stack of logs in Hilversum, The Netherlands designed by Piet Hein Eek. More at thomas mayer_ archive.
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¿Que tal una oficina Container?

¿Que tal una oficina Container?

Earlier this year, the OC Register highlighted one company’s efforts to transform unused warehouse space in Santa Ana, California.  Orange County based Marketing Via Postal Group, Inc. needed offices for their new warehouse and decided to reuse 10 twenty-foot shipping containers as offices and a kitchen.  MVP’s employees did the work and the container spaces now have porthole windows, office furniture, plants, and bathrooms/sinks.

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MVP bought the containers for ~$1,000 each and configured them with windows, doors, electricity, heating, and air conditioning for ~$3,000-$4,000 each.  At these prices, not only was it inexpensive to build out the offices, but MVP also recognized another benefit from energy savings.

When you heat and cool a large space like a warehouse, it can get expensive.  It gets even more expensive as people fight over the thermostat.  But with container offices, MVP now saves about $3,000 per month on energy costs because only the containers are heated/cooled as necessary for the users.  It’s a pretty smart strategy.

[+] The ultimate in office recycling by the OC Register.

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