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Layout for a Container-Built Home
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" Steve Armstrong is -- this right now and he is really the designer of this this particular house right correct. And and I mean your training is an engineering and in architecture that's correct and didn't tell me about I mean how you got to this point to it. Taking old shipping containers and turning them into houses. But whose idea was that well --"
" Of this Tampa armature works of course they came to me and asked if I could help with the engineering. And get the approvals necessary by the city. Okay sometimes it's difficult sometimes hard and it's it's a new technology in its and new advancing technology so we work with the city to create. Approval so we build this building that is tell tell us about the volume that we've got here early what's the footprint size footprint is about 1600 square feet. And this will be a four bedroom two bath home yet if you look at the just the volumes we've created here in this envelope is going envelope. We have a lot of flexibility here we can create open spaces very large open spacious high ceilings eight foot ceilings normal. Everything we're looking at that is this kind of brown red steel color is the original container right that's correct it's all steel. And then everything that we're looking at that's shiny metal is the new steel studs that are being brought in and slowly. Put up to create the layout that we have that we the interior partitions for it there. Bedrooms the bathrooms and the kitchen living room spaces that we have. And of course the roof system is a traditional truss system that's correct. And the floors. -- a floor joist system with a traditional plywood decking. So that's what connects the two boxes on this side with the two boxes on this ties it all together so you have one structure. One continuous structure between -- what are the big challenges here. The challenges are. Are marrying up conventional and nonconventional construction. There are some should special challenges but it is you see them just looking around. We would you can easily overcome those challenges and use traditional finishes and traditional -- that's an important point is I mean I think a lot of people would say. Well it looks like huge star dean can I wouldn't want to live there now. And yet what you're saying is that by the time we marry all the conventional building technologies with this unconventional structure to look like any old house anywhere when he walked inside and will be drywall partitions standard windows and doors -- need to look like any other home. 1600 square foot home she anywhere in Tampa or anywhere else for that. You said four bedrooms behind us here trying to the only part that can't be modified really is this part here. That's correct there's of the steel post when we call the corner post of of the container and hand and they formed the backbone if you will the skeleton our structure it holds this entire structure together in hand and then the area in the front where we just walked in is living room living room dining room and kitchen. Very spacious. And you know the functional flow works very well then. And Steve you're confident that this can be brought in at an affordable number. This -- and that this will be one solution to the problem of abandoned shipping containers around our country it's an alternative that takes advantage of these abandoned shipping containers and gives us a traditional home that anybody be proud. Thanks I think it's a great solution thank you."
