Box House One

Map of a neighborhood showing buildings and streets; some buildings shaded red.
  • Modern glass building surrounded by trees, grass, and neighboring house on a cloudy day.
    Box House One
  • Modern house with large windows surrounded by trees, lawn, and a sidewalk.
    Box House One
  • Modern courtyard with black container buildings, grass, a lounging person, and a standing figure with a dog.
    Box House One
  • Map of a neighborhood showing buildings and streets; some buildings shaded red.
    Box House One
  • Aerial view of a neighborhood plan with buildings, green spaces, roads, and parking areas.
    Box House One
  • Sequential black and red graphics showing architectural design evolution on a white background.
    Box House One
  • Architectural site plan detailing building layouts, trees, pathways, and annotations.
    Box House One
  • Architectural floor plan with room labels, measurements, and structural details in black and white.
    Box House One
  • Architectural cross-section of a two-story building with interior layouts and surrounding trees.
    Box House One
  • Wooden architectural model of a rectangular modern building on a black background.
    Box House One
  • Six people stand behind a wooden architectural model in a bright office setting.
    Box House One

Team

Team:

Students: FACT studio

Faculty: Professor Jeffrey L. Day FAIA 

 

ARCH 510 / Fall 2015

FACT (Fabrication And Construction Team, a student design-build workshop), in collaboration with Min | Day, is designing and building a series of single-family houses for the non-profit community development agency Neighborworks Lincoln. The homes will utilize repurposed shipping containers as a primary structural and spatial component. The goal of the studio is to find ways to use the containers efficiently and honestly, taking advantage of inherent structural properties.

Located on South 8th Street in Lincoln, NE, this will be the first house built by FACT. Using 2 tall 40-foot containers as the only vertical structure, the 1,200 s.f. residential program is split into stable and unstable functions. The stable program (bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchen) is located in the minimally altered containers whereas the unstable program (loosely defined living area) occupies the space between the two boxes. A simple wood-truss roof spans the containers to enclose the central room and cover a front porch. A storage container and carport form the back wall of a private courtyard.

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