Technical drawings are continually referenced during a construction project from the initial planning right through until the completion of the project.
Internal and external width measurements and dimensions are a key part of shipping container technical drawings. Door opening widths, heights, gauge thickness of the steel, the position of components such as lashing points, the types of materials used, such as Corten steel and galvanized locking components.
The drawing will also show both the tare and gross weight capacity together with a reference number and the name of the person or company who designed and authorized the drawing.
Shipping container structural drawings, CAD drawings, fabrication drawings and engineering drawings are essentially the same. They all show detailed measurements of an intermodal shipping container and the related components.
Conex Depot provides FREE download of shipping container technical drawings in the following sizes and configurations:. Remember me Log in. Through the use of an earth berm and orienting the building to the path of the sun, the house advantages passive heating and cooling strategies.
These help control temperature and correlate to lower energy consumption. The Farnsworth house imposes itself on the site. Its orientation and open elevations create a seamless, transparent, and breathtaking flow of interior and exterior space.
However, it's a glass box that heats up quickly in the summer and is extremely drafty in the winter. Each building illustrates an extreme; the Jacob's house highly passive, the Farnsworth house requires substantially more active heating and cooling.
Each has its unique appeal and adaptability to container building and offer lessons to consider in the initial planning and conceiving of your shipping container home design and site orientation. As we look closer at detailing and core envelope issues for a container house design in the PLAN section, we'll return to these two model houses and passive design.
Landscaping and shading are very effective passive design strategies. The location of dense, coniferous trees on the elevation against the prevailing wind usually west or northwest may decrease heat loss due to infiltration and wind chill factor in the winter.
Sites with deciduous shade trees can reduce summer solar gain if positioned properly on the south and west elevations of the buildings. Views and privacy will also be important things to consider.
Every site is different and has its own potentials. If you don't already have a land survey of the site, it's probably a good time to get one done. They're full of relevant information and could bring things to your attention like easements and utility access locations that you're unaware of. If you are lucky you received one when you purchased the land or will be able to get one from the record files of your building department.
Time is the most important thing in life. But drawing your shipping container house floor plan and developing the conceptual design, is where the good stuff starts.
For real. Earlier, we said we were going to explore how shipping containers are a perfect fit for the design build process. The floor plan is a great example.
The 8' width of a shipping container is roughly a small room. Arrange two containers along their length, remove some corrugation, reinforce, and you've got a medium to large room. Remove all the interior corrugation, reinforce, and you have the equivalent of a New York City industrial loft. Containers are "design placeholders" for the perimeter and interior of your home.
They allow you to easily conceptualize the interior space and building massing, simultaneously. Buy a tape measure. Even if you have one. A new one. Make sure it has really good action. That it fits well in your hand, and compliments your attire. It will be your new favorite accessory. Start measuring things. When you are thinking about dimensions of rooms for your shipping container floor plan and not sure what they should be, go measure a space that works and is comparable in size.
Measure some more. Before you start drawing and sketching, make a wish list of all the functional elements. A schedule of all the square footage components including bedrooms, baths, kitchen, dining room, living spaces, garage, etc. Whatever that total square footage is, multiply it by a factor of 1.
Divide that by and you know how many 40' containers to use. This is your starting point. Get some grid and trace paper. Floor plan software is readily available, but stick low tech for the conceptual sketches. A template file of containers and interior elements is available here to download. They are all scaled equally so you can mix the interior elements with the containers and quickly work some simple floor plans.
Houses and apartments in dense urban areas are very small. The average total floor area in a Japanese home is 1, square feet three 40' containers. This should be an additive as well as a reductive process. Remember, flat sites are best as they require minimum excavation and grading. If you are planning a build which consists of more than one container, you should talk with an engineer or contractor early. Foundation costs are potentially very expensive, especially if the bearing capacity of the soil is poor or land substantially sloped.
The three basic types of foundations are - full basement, crawl space, and slab-on-grade. Energy code compliance and your site's location, thermal zone, and climate factor strongly here and will determine insulation requirements.
Keeping the building warm in the winter and cool in the summer with minimal mechanical system help will do much to drive down monthly utility costs. The design section has information on passive vs. You input the square footage of each core envelope element wall, roof, slab, etc. This will determine the binding energy code and allow you to play with different R values insulation levels until the envelope design is in compliance and thereby setting the required R-values.
Even if your project is small or not subject to energy code compliance, the REScheck exercise is worth the time. Once you know the required R-values for the core envelope elements you can begin detailing.
For illustration, consider a cold climate that requires an R value for exterior walls. This could be achieve with batt R 3. Mechanical - Air circulation and temperature regulation. All these options must be thoroughly planned for, just as with the build out of a typical wood-frame home. There are no short cuts and consulting with a contractor who specializes in these fields is highly recommended.
Typically, they are a communication tool between the designer and client as they vet through the design of the home. You can use hand sketches or utilize one of the many consumer modeling and drafting applications.
But, they are for your own reference and not necessary for filing. If you are, which is most cases, first thing to do is call the building department and get a permitting submittal checklist.
Things typically required will be plans site, foundation, floors, and roof , elevations, land survey, water treatment septic and run-off , energy code compliance, structural drawings, and soils report.
Also make sure to check which of these documents will need to be stamped by a licensed professional. Bid and Construction Drawings Contract Documents. They should include drawings and specifications for all components and systems of the building. A complete set of Contract Documents provides a comprehensive, fully coordinated set of construction documents and specifications that the contractor uses to determine a guaranteed maximum or lump sum price, obtain necessary permits, coordinate with factory for modular components, and construct the project.
Even if you are planning on taking on the construction yourself or managing the project through sub-contractors, you should put together as detailed and extensive set of construction documents as possible. Putting the construction documents together will help tremendously in understanding the design and verifying the projected budget prior to construction. Having done this prior to bidding the project will do three things; help get accurate pricing for budget development, assemble a list of general contractors to bid competitively for the project if you are not building yourself , and problem solve the design.
Typically, there is no single "best" method for all projects, and no method delivers fastest, cheapest, and highest quality simultaneously. What distinguishes each is the amount of design information and drawings available prior to construction and whether the build price is fixed or relative to actual costs.
The design and manufacturing of shipping container homes is a viable alternative to conventional construction for many reasons, but despite a strong showing of successful container projects, building with shipping containers is still in it's early stages. From the design perspective, there are many design entities with "Kit" shipping container home offerings.
These however, are very far from turnkey. The ones that do, have very small custom shops with limited output which is highly customized and high in price. Typically, they have a "stock" catalogue of very base shipping container home designs to purchase turnkey.
Some can provide customized solutions design to your specs , at higher cost points. Even a small one. There are thousands of materials, pieces, and tasks involved. Unless you are a builder or experienced it's intimidating.
But, what containers as perfect modules allow you to do, is simplify the entire process. Think of a typical 1, square foot house. Try and work through in your head the total length of timber for the framing, square footage of sheathing, number of floor joists required, and ceiling rafters.
Can't do it. Not too many can. Now think about that 1, square foot house made out of shipping containers. It's 3 forty foot containers. By reducing the house into 3 base component pieces modules , it's much easier to understand, design, and build. Bring required utilities to site. Install septic system and any storm water management system if required.
Foundation The foundation shown below is a typical slab on grade application for a sf three 40' containers shipping container home design. There is a 24' x 40' perimeter foundation wall made from precast concrete panels, but could easily be cmu block or poured concrete. The perimeter was excavated and trench filled with gravel for drainage. The precast panels were dropped in via a crane and tied together.
The panels included insulation and exterior water proofing membranes added at the factory. Utilities water, electircal, and gas supply lines are run to the base of the foundation and then to there respective locations in plan. Foundation walls were then back-filled, soil compacted, gravel added, rebar laid out, and then slab poured.
Container Modifications Shipping containers have monocoque bodies.
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