The airSpace Architecture project requires a cheap, prefabricated, easy to assemble, portable but durable material. The building method should not at any way interfere with the adjoining buildings - due to the impossible to overcome planning permission applications and laws of preservation of historic buildings that are in place in central London.
Shipping containers are in many ways an ideal building material because they are strong, durable, stackable, cuttable, movable, modular, plentiful and relatively cheap.
The benefits:
Fire, mold and insect damage resistant,
Strength and durability - designed to resist harshest of weather conditions,
Modular, standardised measurements that can be combined into a large structures,
Easy to transport,
Low cost, especially of the used containers,
Environmentally friendly.
Due to their modular nature they generate flexible and adaptable arrangement solutions. A house, made out of intermodal freight containers, rather than being a fully finished product right from the start would be a structure that grows over time, as the needs of inhabitants change.
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