Affordable and Sustainable Containerized Housing: A Fabric First Approach
Introduction: Housing affordability is a growing concern in the United States, with rising housing costs for a growing number of households. Young adults are particularly affected by this issue, facing higher housing costs and lower homeownership rates compared to previous generations. The prefabricated housing industry has the potential to provide a solution by offering flexible and sustainable living spaces that are cost-effective. Our approach to designing and building affordable, high-quality, and sustainable homes is based on a containerized format.
Containerized Design: Our building units are made of steel frames and structural units that conform to the size and dimensions of standard shipping containers. This makes our building units easily shipped by standard trucks or trains anywhere in the Americas without the need for oversized load handlers. To overcome the dimensional constraints of containerized design, we use "backpacks" - infill modules for spaces such as kitchens and bathrooms that can slide inside the container during shipping and out creating projections from the overall container dimensions.
Materials Matter: We choose our materials based on first principles, considering their strength and weight characteristics, as well as their inertness, non-toxicity, ease of manufacturing and building, and life cycle. Our structures are composed of steel, composite concrete, composite cardboard, aluminum, and glass, which are among the most recycled materials on earth.
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