How To Design A Creative Prefabricated Container Building?

Containers can be used in a wide range of fields, and the products include container sales offices, convenience stores, various milk tea shops, homestay hotels, villa apartments, exhibition halls, bars, schools, commercial blocks, etc.
Product specifications The maximum length, width, and height of the container's internal dimensions are generally 9 meters * 3 meters * 3 meters and 12 meters * 3 meters * 3 meters.
The manufacturing materials are roughly divided into three materials: aluminum alloy, steel, and fiberglass.
Aluminum alloy
The advantages of aluminum alloy are light weight, beautiful appearance, excellent corrosion resistance and elasticity, and long service life. The disadvantage of aluminum alloy containers is that the cost is relatively high.
Steel
Steel has high strength, strong structure, good weldability, good water tightness, and relatively low price; poor corrosion resistance and heavy weight are its only disadvantages.
Fiberglass
The fiberglass container is also a common one, which has many advantages: high strength, good rigidity, large internal volume, excellent insulation, corrosion resistance, and chemical resistance. It is also easy to clean and repair. But such containers are relatively heavy and prone to aging, especially the strength of the bolts will be reduced a lot.
1. Standardized unit body
The characteristic of container buildings is the standardization of size. Container building units come from ready-made containers. Limited by the existing box size, most containers have uniform external dimensions. The following figure shows three commonly used sizes. It can be seen that the net space that can be used is relatively cramped, the indoor height is low, and the horizontal space is narrow and long. Full consideration of ergonomics greatly affects the customer experience and building quality. You can stack several container boxes, but you must fully consider the structure and safety, not to mention that the vertical space is opened, which requires a strong structure to stabilize.
2. Service life The life of containers in the transportation industry is generally 10-15 years. The undamaged container bodies that have been eliminated still have good physical properties and can generally be used for 15 years. If they are well maintained or combined with other structures such as concrete, they can last longer~
3. Protection measures The container material is affected by the physical characteristics of its own metal structure. It has strong heat conduction ability and poor thermal insulation performance, which makes the indoor thermal environment unstable. It is necessary to set up an additional thermal insulation layer to effectively control the indoor thermal environment. In the southern region, the container body needs to be shaded for insulation, which can save energy costs; in addition, the container body is prone to rust, and anti-rust paint needs to be applied inside and outside the container to prevent rust. One thing to note is that in order to prevent the spread of pests and diseases during international shipping, chromate, phosphorus or lead-containing paints are used in the paint of containers produced in some countries. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the origin of the box before making it into a store. For some boxes, the original residual paint must be polished off before it can be used safely.
4. The best principle of appearance is to be an exquisite exhibit in the city, and at the same time let customers know that the building is derived from containers, so as to better reflect the novelty and artistic atmosphere. The picture below shows the AETHER container clothing store. The exterior color is simple and atmospheric, and the dislocation forms an interesting facade shape. Leading new elements into the urban space. The treatment of the exterior is generally based on color and shape. The color and pattern are very suitable for a bit of literary style. The customer is positioned as a young group. The shape is to place several boxes in different sizes, angles, and heights to create some overhead, balcony, corridor and other spaces. This is a very basic composition method in architectural design. Even laymen can try it. Be careful not to create sharp-angled triangular spaces and spaces that cannot be used by the human body. Let's look at several commonly used vertical space relationships.