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Foundations of Technology
The Designed World: Construction Technologies
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Project: Recycled Home Design shipping container

In this unit you've had a chance to survey many kinds of technologies. Technologies do not work in isolation, but are integrated. In this project, you will develop a technology integrated solution to solve real world problems:

  • Problem: Low cost housing is in critical need world wide. Additionally, millions of shipping containers (enough to circle the globe twice), remain a problem in terms of storage or disposal. In this task, you will create low cost, easy to transport, housing, using standard sized shipping containers.
  • Criteria and Constraints:
    • Your home design must include kitchen, bath, seating, and sleeping areas.
    • The design may be made from one or two shipping containers, each of which is 40 feet long, 8 feet high, and 8 feet wide. There is a double door at one end that fills an 8' x 8' opening.
    • In addition to the space arrangement inside the home, you are to create a floor plan and model that shows the amount of space needed for basic appliances (Kitchen: stove, sink, refrigerator, storage and preparation space. Bathroom: shower, toilet, sink, provision to create hot water). You will need to measure and get dimensions required for these items.
    • Your overall plan must include provisions for transportation, energy, and communication systems. This will be in the form of a descriptive paragraph and/or items on your model. This should be brief (less than 100 words). Example: The top of my model is covered with solar collectors to provide enough power for heating, cooling, refrigeration, and lighting.
      Example: The units are shipped to the construction site by rail and all units are constructed near rail lines to provide transportation to the occupants.shipping container house
    • You must include a floor plan drawn in a scale of 1/4" = 1'.
    • Your model must be built in a scale of 1/2" = 1'.
  • Materials: Your model will be of a housing unit made of one or two shipping containers. You may use foam board, cardboard, or any other material to make your project.

Background and helpful information:
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Assignment:

Design a recycled home that could be made from one or two standard sized shipping container(s). Address each of the criteria and constraints identified above. You should complete a Technological Design Folio for this project.

Materials:

Due: Your Technological Design Folio is to be submitted to the Recycled Housing drop box before the beginning of the last day of class. This should include your floor plan. Your model is to be brought to class on the last day of class at the face-to-face session.
 
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