A container can support hundreds of tonnes on top of it, as this is what it was designed to do.
What if you turn the container onto its side, so that the earth is pressing against the panels that are designed to take weight and pressure?
Any thoughts? I plan on burying mine later this summer.
>>1011634
>What if you turn the container onto its side, so that the earth is pressing against the panels that are designed to take weight and pressure?
Sage advice: don't -- you'll still die, because the corners are the only load-bearing element. There are no panels designed to take weight and pressure. Sorry to rupture your dreams.
>>1011634
I fully support you OP, do it, and post results
hint: you won't
>>1011634
ok op here is how you make a container into an underground bunker.
1) buy 9 containers
2) fill all the outer containers with concrete
3) cover the entire thing with a concrete slab formed around reinforcing bars
4) bury it
5) drill access hole
>>1011643
>fill all the outer containers with concrete
kekd
it will be like tetris
Why? Why? Fucking WHY?
What is this boards obsession with living a fucking metal box underground? Why is this the thing that people are aspiring for in their life? What wrong with living in houses, above ground, built in a conventional manner, in a tried and true fashion? Why?
>>1011649
Because it is a rather obvious idea for a complete diy noob who is new to diy but without any knowledge whatsoever ie 15 yos who grow up on post apoc pop cultures
>>1011649
It's evolutionary. When we used to live in Africa, there are no trees, so we dug holes with our hands and lived beneath the earth for shelter.
>>1011634
That's not how it works. This >>1011637 is why.
The only way you'd be able to use a shipping container underground is to anchor the bottom to raised piers then fill surrounding 1 foot airspace all around the container with concrete. You'll need to do this in shallow layers, first allowing the last layer to cure before pouring the next layer (cold joints). This will prevent the weight of the cement from crushing the sides. You won't need rebars since the entire container is a metal box. There's no worry about a chunk coming lose and squashing you and having rebar will only rust out and crack the cement prematurely. I recommend spraying the entire outside of the container with truckbed liner like Raptor brand, for rust prevention and making it watertight.
Basically, you'll be using the shipping container as a concrete form.
>>1011669
I neglected to mention you'll need to reinforce the top of the shipping container BEFORE you pour the layer of concrete that goes on top. Otherwise, the weight of just 1 layer will crush the top. Once fully cured, you can remove the supports and beams.
>>1011634
WHAT ONE GOD DARNED SECOND.
WHAT IF YOU PUT A PRESSURE LOCK ON THE CONTAINER AND MAINTAIN POSITIVE AIR PRESSURE SO HELP REINFORCE THE CONTAINER?
>>1011681
WAIT ON E MORE SECOND WHAT IF YOU PUT THE FAN ON TOP OF THE CONTAINER TO MAKE IT FLY PERMENTNLY WITH SOLAR PANELS OMG
>>1011688
>underground bunker
>permanently in orbit
Who's the retard now?
Submarine shipping containers is obviously where it is at, since ocean pressure is inferior to dirt pressure.
>>1011638
He will be too busy partying in his bunker to hang out with us :(
Were still waiting on all of the other ops to find some time to update us on their bunkers
>>1011795
Tfw there is a Lowes brand 3d printer on the iss
>>1011634
My dad works at a company that produces special containers - and if he's correct regular shipping containers are bottom of the barrel kinda quality.
If you still like the idea i'd suggest to read up on static calculation, calculate it with some margin of error and weld it yourself.
>>1011634
Sounds like a good idea, try it and tell us how it works out. Make sure you put it at least six feet deep so it doesn't get uncovered over time.
You should not ask questions google can answer
no. They cannot be burried
>>1011634
Serious answer
would the weigh on the sides hinder door opening?
i know this is a monthly thread but i just had an idea. what if you built a cylindrical frame around the shipping container? then wrap the frame with steel or sheet metal. the steel should be strong enough to distribute the weight evenly across the surface area and that leaves the interior box for living space.
>>1012628
principle? - pretty strong, yup.
irl, youd end up cheaper and less hassle buying and burying the following tho:
http://www.maritimesales.com/PI12.htm
>NOTE TO SELF - STOP REPLYING TO CONTAIER THREATS. NO, SRSLY.
>>1012628
Or just put it inside a culvert pipe.
>>1011634
Use a decommissioned school bus anon, for the last 50 years or so theyve been designed to be able to roll without crumpling (Roll Over Protection System). Therefore they can hold their own weight on the roof
>>1012640
or just forget about the container and use the fucking pipe
>>1012628
>lets build a bunker for the bunker
then whats the point
>>1012628
just use the fucking pipe
>>1011795
wheres the industrial robot with the dildo?
and bunker anon?
>>1012736
>bunger busder broof bunger
>>1011660
I hope you're fucking kidding, that's so retard and is not true
>>1012876
Sometimes it amazes me how little people know of there own history. *sigh*
>>1011831
>no. They cannot be burried
They can be, but to do so properly requires more work than it is worth.
>>1011634
Something you should know is the floor of these are not like the walls and ceiling, they are made of wood planks.
>>1011669
>cement
this triggers the concrete inspector
>>1011669
>cold joints
>no rebar
This is so wrong I don't even know.
>>1011795
>imitation crab meat
Anyone got the screens?
>>1011634
The container doesn't bare weight. There are steel box sections welded on as part of its constitution that bares the weight of other containers stacked, forming a column.
This thread is bullshit and happens weekly.
I know these container threads get tiresome, but let me relate direct experience with burying them.
When I moved to a very rural county in N Ca I met a guy via an ad on a bulletin board for back hoe work. He's been operating backhoes since he was 12 years old, he's about 35 now and a raging alcoholic. But the best hoe operator I have ever seen in my 20 years of construction management career (More on that later). Anyway, after doing a few jobs on my property (jpg related) and actually hiring my son who just got outta the Corps, he landed a job requiring renting a large dozer. Since he has shit tier credit, and the IRS is not happy with his eschewing of paperwork... He needed someone with god tier credit, that's where I came in. So the job was to clear 5 acres of oak forest and grade some tiers into a hill side and hey, while yer here bury these two CONEX boxes for some tweakers. Cash only.. So we tell them, ya know, these aren't designed to be buried... " we done it before, just do it" ok... Anyway, long story short, we dug a big ass hole in the side of a hill, pushed them in, and covered them up. "Hey it worked!" But when we cleared the dirt and rock to open the doors, literally as soon as the door was open "sprungk" it popped like coors light can, doors never to close flush again.... So, if yer gonna bury them, research engineering on how to reinforce them, they're only designed for compression loads on the 4 corners, they're very weak everywhere else.
>>1013764
>pic unrelated
>story unrelated
cool story tho
>>1013764
>Can /you/ spot the buried shipping container hidden in this picture?
>this triggers /diy/
memes aside i really would like to know the backstory behind this, its getting build in a top location and the apartments inside sell for a huge amount of money, why are they using it exactly? i get that they can inuslate the outside but it seems like theyre just stacking them so i guess you must hear your neighbours neighbour sneeze.
>>1014516
another pic. shot it out of a train some time ago, but i just passed it yesterday and saw construction workers cutting out doors between the containers.
>>1014518
54°10'12.3"N 12°05'09.5"E
is what Google maps tells me. They show what it looked like half a year ago though.
Its in Germany next to where i live
![1c6MqRt[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/OPNcoR8.jpg "1c6MqRt[1].jpg")
>>1014519
>mfw /diy/ was ahead of the curve all along.
this would maybe be a goer in Shoreditch or somewhere equally inane as trendy retail outlets - I can't, for the fucking life of me, see how this is making any sense as resedential new build however. By the time you complied with (German..) building regs, cant be worth the bother.
Go ask the builders, wtf this is all about, got me interested now - even assuming they already had a shitload of containers in the location (harbour site in Rostock?), still dont see wut they up to here.
>>1011660
>he fell for the ant people livign underground meme
>>1011669
that probably would have worked if he had only used a few more extension cords
So if you stack 2 and the top one collapses, the bottom one should still be legit right?
Sea cans aren't designed to be buried. The walls are actually quite weak and they'll crumple under the weight of all the dirt. I've looked this up before.
http://graywolfsurvival.com/2625/why-you-shouldnt-bury-a-shipping-container-for-a-shtf-bunker/&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwij25z38MjNAhUH0mMKHbwoDiAQFggLMAA&usg=AFQjCNFDLjsvtTYqEktrbHnkSjI2BemU9A
Google fucked up the link, here's the actual article. http://graywolfsurvival.com/2625/why-you-shouldnt-bury-a-shipping-container-for-a-shtf-bunker/
>>1014526
i went by it today again, but the construction team was all up in the building and noone was near the entrance
what boggled my mind even further is that they are installing the windows right into the metal of the containers, so the insulation outside cant be that thick either. The hollow ends of the containers also just get filled with a normal window. I thought maybe its a hotel, but theres already a giant one being planned right next to it, so its definetly housing.
whats strange also is that every single building around it belongs to someone who built with normal material and published a concept online, but its blurred out in it, so it must be owned by someone else who hasnt published a concept.
Yeah we have a harbour, but the container terminal is very small and the containers look very new to me.
I forgot to take pics, will be there on wednesday again and take some more if i dont forget it. Maybe someone will be there by then.
Why not just live in a caravan ?
>>1014651
>BURIED CARAVAN
>CARAVANS CAN NOT BE BURIED
In addition to not having money, OP wants to live underground.
>>1011634
>wat are point loads
>>1014653
I hope he suffocates.
>>1011795
Needs more garbage chinese tools and harbor shit logos.
>>1013250
Or geography. Because the nut case seemed to think their are no trees in Africa.
>>1013779
Top kek !
>>1011634
http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/house-super-cool-or-just-plain-ugly-st-charles-residents-are-two-minds
Yeah, but where are they going to put all the crab
Containers are surprisingly expensive, for the cost of buying one you could just make a structure out of wood and/or metal panels and have a contractor or two to help you out
>>1011634
They're sheet metal casings with steel beam corners.
There is no side that is weight-bearing, only the corners.
>>1011634
Concrete-capped steel culvert or poly/steel cistern/septic-tank are your best bets.
If going with steel you will want to coat it in a shit-load of rhino liner or similar laminate to avoid/postpone rusting.
>>1011649
It's not just this board, this has been a popular idea for decades.
There was always a underground shipping container thread up on the ancient BBS's I used to visit.
Everyone who wants to bury a container should do so! Follow your dreams and ignore the haters. Your initiative will be rewarded with success!
Numerous containers survived direct hits from 30mm A-10 "Warthog" cannon during the Iraq war. The springy corrugations dissipate energy and the projos bounce off. The immortal Corten steel shells last centuries even without paint, which is only decorative. The US Navy has a fleet of containers at the bottom of the Marianas trench where they dock submarines made from containers for underwater replenishment. Hawaii successfully used lava flow to encase containers to make attractive tourist lodges. Transatmospheric scramjet powered containers have been developed into launch platforms for smaller containers to be used in the post-Brexit EU space containerstation. North Korea replaced their old dug shelters under mountains with containers painted like mountains. (The insides are painted with cute anime characters to boost morale.) Elon Musk prototyped an electric container to replace the Tesla since the container is more aesthetically appealing than the car and has a lot more battery room. The mayor of Detroit has decided to replace his decaying city with containers. The old buildings will be demolished and the rubble hauled off in other containers, loaded onto rafts made of containers, and shipped to China via the St. Laurence seaway where it will be ground up and the metal residue used to make more containers. US Navy SEALS stealthily infiltrate enemy ports using containers cunningly disguised as containers. Israel is solving the Palestinian problem by storing them in containers. (Germany tried to solve the Jewish problem using wooden freight cars, but the container hadn't been invented yet.) Donald Trumps border wall will be easily affordable if built from containers. Any Beaners who slip in by other routes can be detained in containers then trucked to Beanland where containers will be donated as housing.
>>1014649
It would be stupid to use old containers because they lead a hard, and corrosive, life in service. New containers are more easily fabricated into building modules.
I'm the guy who keeps posting Sea Box site with industrial and military examples. There are others but so few people on /diy/ who are interested in containers know how to use the internet it's depressing.
Anyone interested should begin with a simple container workshop. If you want to go advanced you will need one, and they work nicely.
>>1012630
God damn, that is a sexy sub.
Anybody interested in crowdfunding it? We could call it the SS /diy/ and sail the seven seas plundering cargo ships for their precious shipping containers (after tipping the worthless contents into the sea). We could have a secret base in Bunkerbro's flooded basement. Who's with me?
>>1012628
just take the pipe and make a floor with concrete or wood boards (so you have more storage)
>>1017262
it was sold
>>1017389
>it sold
np, another in New Joisay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ling_%28SS-297%29
- been trying to get rid of that for over 10 years (site to be redeveloped) - sub was museum / closed. Prob. pay you to get rid of it, desu.
>>1011649
natural evolution of a culture desperately trying to find privacy? houses come with walls now. it wasn't always this way
>>1016819
>not a huge leap
Other than adding plumbing, electrical, insulation, ventilation, hygiene, cooking, sleeping, et cetera...
>>1011634
what's the price of one of these, 20ft and 40ft containers ?
>>1014595
Anon please Im at work
>>1017680
Lifetime supply
>>1017680
This thread is crab meat
>>1014519
that's housing for rapefugees then.
>>1017097
10/10
>>1018360
>what's the price of one of these, 20ft and 40ft containers ?
Prices vary locally. Google and especially Craigslist are good sources. Compare prices and LEARN ABOUT HOW THEY ARE GRADED so you don't buy a piece of shit.
Just another LATERAL PRESSURE MONKEY thread.
>>1018380
>Lifetime supply
Faux crab meat rapidly deteriorates in storage, so if want lifetime supply you should commission custom container-sized aquaria to grow tilapia for processing into fauxcrab. This is not as impractical as it sounds because ISO containers for liquid and gas transport are old news You can mount the container of your choice in a custom container frame. Life support for your fish farm can likewise be containerized with pumps, filtration, aeration, and food storage in nice weathertight packages. Fish processing, refrigeration and storage could likewise be done in container modules. Structure are available COTS to make buildings based on containers as sidewalls.
What's scary is while that wouldn't be cost-effective, it could work.
If you want your fish farm to be easily deployable, you can buy COTS container mobilizers then connect them to your prime mover of choice.
http://www.cdkmobile.com/m1022%20full.htm
You must defend your fish from marauding zombies. Fucking around with zombies is stupid so don't bring a knife to a gunfight or a gun to a missile fight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbUU_9bOcnM
You will want a contaner handling unit to move your containers into a defensible position:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MihzvE82LDQ
Oopsie, I forgot the tank linky!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0X32opNzTo
If you want to bury a container, have a round steel tank fabricated then shipped to your location on a flatrack container.
Shit, we need power:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNzvj9iPAag
What good is civilization (if you can call it that) without porn storage?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRwPSFpLX8I
/k/tard are catered for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DGB-1cOX3U
/diy/ at this scale needs a comfy machine shop. Later versions exist with full CNC machining centers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE8tbAYFUXQ
A nice party room is worth having so you can chill with your bros after work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAZLkAXd3s
I'm sick of stupid container threads. Motherfuckers should consider what ISO containers are REALLY good for.
I've not made my interiors pretty so that would distract from posting my personal shop, but my mill, lathe, welders and other equipment have lived happily there for many years.
I'll pimp Sea Box cuz my milbro worked with them and they do some impressive work. Want idea? Here ya fucking go:
http://seabox.com/modified-containers
While I was joking about the Trump wall, real border control demands manned pickets along with modern surveillance systems. Outposts should resist cartel small arms as Mexico continues its descent into a failed state:
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2009/07/praxis-shipping-containers-and-hesco.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTZscYmBXco
>>1018439
>333m can be deployed in under a minute
But how long does it take to fill 333m?
>>1018463
>But how long does it take to fill 333m?
Fill rate LIMFAC is imitation crabmeat ballistic filler pallet breakdown speed. The Krusty proprietary brand is toughest but only comes in MRE-box sized containers. Krusty can stop 105mm DU penetrators in one meter of fill because Krabby properties negate DUs pyrophorism, though the post-attack barrier will smell like Hillary Clinton's love emplacement on a hot day afterwards. (They emit similar thermal plumes when pounded.)
Fastest fill speed was usiing a methedrined Mexican work gang but tests were discontinued for national security reasons and because some asshole prankster yelled "La Migra!" over the (ISO containerized of course) PA system/riot control sound emitter.
How many posters here actually own containers?
They aren't just big refrigerator boxes that you get for free to play in like when you were 9
They are heavy as fuck and will kill you if you screw up. They are expensive unless you want a beat to shit 10,000 cocks stare rust bucket.
And they will cost a lot to have delivered, even the rust bucket.
They also sweat like a motherfucker.
The containers meme is much like the solar frickin roadways meme.
Source: I own containers and use them in ways they were designed
>>1011634
your asshole is the only thing designed to take that much weight and pressure
>>1018539
In Texas, they are fucking ovens in the summer too.
>>1018539
My two High Cubes were 2400 each delivered and they still go that much for decent boxes. Price really depends on location. I'm not far from the port of Charleston. Mine were decent wind-and-water tight grade. Seaworthy or better, one-trip containers are in superior condition.
>>1015094
I see what you did there.
>>1018606
God yes I hope you like slavering the top with silver rv roof paint or cooking everything inside
Oh and you better put them on blocks or 6" of gravel or they will sink into the ground and rot
I have to have a guy with a giant 4wd tractor come out and reposition my tool storage container because I cheaped out on the underlayment and it's SINKING
These things are Fucking Heavy
>>1018612
Good for you you live by a port. Most people don't. Especially the ones with "bugout locations"
>>1018635
>God yes I hope you like slavering the top with silver rv roof paint or cooking everything inside
Roof paint of the chain store variety isn't very durable or reflective. I used red Rustoleum as a base then Sherwin-Williams white industrial coating which works nicely. (DO NOT use hardware store white coating. Roofing contractors laugh at that porous shit which lets water through and doesn't work on ponding areas.)
White reflects so much sunlight I had to take MANY water breaks and got sunburnt from underneath on chin and arms!
A High Cube weighs only about 10,000 lbs and I have far more than that in them. They don't sink because that area of my otherwise softish yard got a truckload of railroad gravel long before the containers. Railroad beds don't tend to sink and I wanted that area elevated slightly because it rains a lot in the Carolinas. The gravel supports my concrete slab with Steelmaster building too. I put my containers atop two steel beams across the corner fittings for more height.
Joaquin dropped a shitload of rain on my area and nothing moved or sank.
>Good for you you live by a port. Most people don't.
If their prices are high they should build something different, like a Steelmaster which are easy to erect with a couple of people. Truck freight for either option isn't bad to most areas of CONUS. My 20' x 20 Steelmaster is only a baby but I've had it since 1993 and moved it once. (I anti-seized all the bolts when assembling so teardown and re-erection went slick.)
I worked with containers a long time before getting three. Study is free. I even persuaded my local community college to buy a container for welding shop metal storage. It did so well they bought a second. I also helped my mechanicbro source and place his High Cube. His yard is rock hard and elevated so we went with a railroad tie under each end. Landoll delivery guy placed container within inches of desired spot.
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Bugging out dreams are silly bullshit where people who can't make it in Reality 1.0 fap to an Apocalypse where they imagine their Ramboskillz will make them special instead of just another shmuck.
Bunkering a static defensive trap where you become sniper bait. If you have anything worth the bother it's easy to cover the exits and wait.Anyone serious would study grunt skills to track, ambush and kill intruders. Hypothetical zombies could sustain themselves on foot in the field for very long. They don't do road marches nor are they equipped for anything but preying on other zombies.
Back to da practical:
I copied an idea I saw on Youtube to join my roofs. Since there is a gap when containers touch side-by-side at the corner fittings, I had a 4x8 sheet of 1/8" steel sheared into 2" wide by 8' long strips (cheaper than buying strips and the un-sheared half remains for other projects) then FCAWed it across the gap using a suitcase feeder connected to my welder inside the shop. Ground to shell then run your hot lead where ya like. Some people use sealant but welding wire is cheaper than that much (quality) goo. I foamed the vertical end seams with UV-resistant foam. I sealed the bottom of my internal doorway but left it unfinished until I figure out the ideal size (and get off my ass to tidy it up).
Camo paint on the sides blend with my trees so nothing looks interesting to thieves from the road. If you do this use a legit camo pattern. My wife was an artist so she did the painting. You could paint any inward (relative to your property frontage) sidewalls white too but I haven't bothered. I like it warm inside because that keeps my stuff dry. I could air condition the place but I'm lazy. My monster Miller welder has a fan strong enough to fully ventilate one side.
I added a man door for convenience on the end opposite the stock end doors. Fave sealant is 3M 5200. Fuck silicone.
Fuck, forgot quote tags don't work here. I spend a lot of time on other fora where they do.
No matter what you build, study first. A building answers a specific problem. There are so many choices no one solution is appropriate.
I wanted storm and fire resistance where containers beat conventional homes and shops. If another Hurricane Hugo comes through I'll be chilling in my shop. Empty unanchored containers are good to around 100 mph wind speed before they shift. Two joined and full of equipment ain't going anywhere.
I'm not a prepper but live an "incidentally prepared" life. Most gearheads have excess batteries or batteries they don't use a lot. Mine live on a plastic industrial cart (wood is fine too cuz acid doesn't bother it) where I charge them with an inexpensive Yuasa tender. When power goes out I connect a cheap inverter to one at a time to power my cable modem and router. My PCs are mostly old Thinkpads because built-in battery backup. LED lights work fine off car and baiku batteries. I have a generator but haven't used it in ten years. I removed the generator gas tank and run it off a hose off my dummy tank I use to test baikus instead of putting fuel into a nasty customer tank.
>My PCs are mostly old Thinkpads
Hello /g/
>>1018606
>Texas? hot, etc.
would have been my opinion (twrong climate for container, mabe) as well, but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRN0uClnJBw
seems to manage - some Scots bloke & wife who built a shipping container house in AUS, which aint exactly Alaska either.
Only watched the first half-an-hour of this (it long, maybe he die in the end), and dont really GAF about shipping containers either (just this place continually going on bout them) - but, the guy seems mostly non-asshole. Also spent aabout 60k EUR and been at it three or four years, but thats at least realsitic. Cunt also sells $20 'how to live in a shipping container `ebooks, but, thats only to be expected.
Aaynway, maybe worth a look if howto into offgrid shipping container stuff. Overground but, sorry wombles n hobbits.
>>1014649
>this thread is still alive
never disappoint me, /diy/
i forgot about it until i came along it today again and took two shots from the train. I did some web research and it appeared it was planned as a hostel but then replanned for housing according to the big ad on the construction.
>>1017100
yeah they are definetly new and not just repainted.
i know about housing containers and that they are insulated, but these are just plain, normal shipping containers. the spaces between them dont seem to get filled or anything.
>>1016819
you mean third worlders who use what they can salvage? i can understand that. I can also understand using the containers especially designed and fitted for accomodation like the other guy posted, but these threads are about living a first world life in what basically is a packaging material, and the building im posting is out of the reach of most of the people living here pricewise. also >>1017686
>>1020633
another one. i couldnt get a shot from the front, basically the doors just got replaced with glass. Sometimes they just cut out the walls between two adjacent containers to create a bigger room. The concrete thing is the space for the stairs/ elevator, other than that its really just a stack.
The ad seems to show what it will look like i guess.
>>1018391
this is a rich peoples area, no "refugees" there, administration makes sure of that since most of them live there.
also its in the east, we dont have the need for housing. lots of old commieblocks and most of the people that got assigned to my state fucked off right back to west Germany or Sweden.
To keep this /diy/-related however - its next to impossible nowadays to get a container fitted for housing or even being able to get refitted for it because the few companies that make them sell them to the state for double the price. Which is another reason im boggled by that building, the containers must have cost a fortune.
>>1020635
That is really interesting, they must be really short on time to go for containers which has no structural quality whatsoever which they will have to struggle to put reinforcements into
I wonder what is the deal here, and how do they do the floors and walls and insulation
Can you take more pictures?
>>1020647
i even managed to find the plans for it. Apparently the housing/Hostel thing is not decided yet and the ad shows another building. They dont even plan on covering the outside
>>1020650
and one of the floors. Again, they dont seem to plan on covering the outside, theyll just flatten out the inside walls and thats it.
>>1020653
Dorm = its student accomodation, no? Its.fucking right sketchy otherwise, desu.
Cheers for the updates, knew that banner was fuck all to do with these - but as said originally, Hotel, Hostel, Student Accom, Fugee Central - maybe makes sense, but, normal resedential, to German Regs? - No Way.
>>1020650
It seems they are really going for the "respect of local cargo port culture/vibe" route here, so in this case it is really a aesthetic decision, less of a practical one. Or maybe the local housing market isn't worth much investment, so they are hedging with potential hostel use.
The thing is, the "containers" here is in a perfect location because it is literally next to an old port. It must have something to do with it. Maybe it's a local planning thing and they are trying to regenerate the area and make something that looks interesting and will get people talking and to enable more tourism traffic and activities. It looks like it is well located for a hostel also given the beach and local vibe etc.
So in this case it is really a case of aesthetics>practicality.
>>1020655
yeah the more i look at it, the more im convinced it will be a hostel and the ads were just misleading. It even said Hostel in the planning, but i read somewhere else the city is trying to ban it and make it housing instead so the hotel prices dont drop. I guess thats of the table now.
plumbing will still be a bitch, i mean they will drill through every one of these. As will insulation, the wind there is really strong and will cool the metal down in winter. On one of the pics you can see glass wool but i hardly believe the layer on the inside will be very thick judging from the plans.
Also that top view triggers my autism
>>1020659
>that zigzag motherfucking corridor
Yes, aesthetics choice confirmed, they HAD TO turn the containers at an angle to really create the "container city" look. (presumably also to let them look at the actual harbor.)
>>1020657
aesthetics might be a point, the container port isnt that close but its right next to a wharf. Its still a top location and surrounded by extremely expensive housing with "normal" materials, but i guess your explanation is the most logical.
