CONTAINER HOUSES
How Containers Make Temporary & Permanent Housing Solutions That way, the owner retains their asset, and the government does not have to build them another home. Containers are the only portable low cost housing solution as far as we know. Greater Project Flexibility A well-intended low-cost housing project can find itself on hold when a seller unexpectedly pulls out of a deal. Expenditure on brick and mortar can become fruitless when assumptions fail. Any work done on RDP houses becomes wasted when this happens. That's where shipping container homes truly prove their worth. If the land is not successfully acquired the housing authority can uplift them, and move them to another location.
Perhaps the greatest single advantage of shipping container homes is they are designed to be picked up, movedaround and stacked as complete units. Compare this with the task of shipping in bricks, trusses, roof sheets, dry walls etc. to a rural location. Pilferage has always been a problem on building sites where sticky fingers are hoping to steal a door or a window. Finding a roof truss missing at a critical moment can be a nightmare for a builder working on a green field project. However, having the floor, walls and roof in one piece holds more promises than that. RapidTransport, Relocation & Removal From Site A brick and mortar house stands forever on its foundations, unless we demolish it or it burns down. If it turns out wrongly positioned on a stand, it may have to come down or be abandoned. Moreover, if looming climate change turns a field bedside a stream into a flood zone the bricks and foundations are left to rot. In all of the above instances a container truck could have picked a container building up and relocated it to another site.
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AFRICAN SHIPPING REVIEW July/Sept. 2020
Stack-ability For Greater Productivity Of Land Dispossessed people are less than interested in being set down in fields far from cities, jobs and education.They yearn to live in urban areas like the rest of us, as is increasingly evident from land grabs. Suitable land is scarce. You need engineering solutions before creating multi-storey RDP dwellings. However shipping container homes are designed with stack-ability in mind, and they don't have to be in tower blocks either. Borrow a couple of wooden blocks from your kids, and experiment with stacking them with partial overlaps. A semistacked container village can create shelters to sit out beneath, or cultivate a small garden. When we achieve greater land productivity this way, it brings us closer to the homeless person's dream of living close to amenities and improved job prospects. Other containers nearby could house clinics, primary school classrooms and convenience spaza shops. We have a dream of a low cost housing solution that's workable, affordable and treats people with dignity. Our vision of low-cost housing using shipping containers provides some of the building blocks we need most.
