Snow day Ecocontainer conversions

Would you like to live in an aeroplane? Students will demonstrate ecological design criteria in creating a powerpoint research slide show of shipping, airplane, train containers converted into homes, hospitals, stores, appartments and hotels. Go to marineinsight.com and ecocontaioner.com and view the videos to educate you on the latest design criteria in ecology housing and comercial design.

There are over 700,000 empty containers across the nation, just sitting around, stacked up on top of each other collecting dust. Every day 21,000 of these containers are used to ship pieces and parts for all different kinds of industries across the U.S. and there they stay, waiting for their next fill-up or, in some cases, never used again. How can intermodal shipping containers be reduced, reused and recycled in a productive way?

• People produce and send a lot of waste to the local landfills.

• Being a good citizen of our communities and the earth means trying to produce as little waste as we can. Recycling, reusing and reducing the “stuff” we use are three important ways to limit our adverse impact on the earth.

• Reusing items that we would normally throw away can be productive.

• Intermodal shipping containers can be reused in a productive way.

Refer to the attached file and create an alternative building from a shipping container. You create your powerpoint of shipping, airplane and train containers converted into homes, hotels, hospitals, and apartments. Assignment is due the same day in class it is given.

They cheated a little by building a hut around it.

But it looks nice inside

Very Wooden