Who wrote "Container city"?

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Container city

Q: What is "Container city" about?

This article covers topics related to Visual Design, Urban Design. The basis of the suggested project is the placement of a dormitory for students and teachers of the Murmansk Marine Fisheries College named after I.I. in northwestern Russia. The project that you are considering suggests forming of structural style made of sea or rail containers to resemble a traditional Russian dwelling - a hut.

The basis of the suggested project is the placement of a dormitory for students and teachers of the Murmansk Marine Fisheries College named after I.I. in northwestern Russia. The project that you are considering suggests forming of structural style made of sea or rail containers to resemble a traditional Russian dwelling - a hut.

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A container hut, decorated in the Russian style, will make it possible to brighten up the ugliness of containers that were not originally intended for housing.

The shape of the hut and the carved decorations of the house will allow its residents not to feel abandoned, but, on the contrary, to feel a community with their families, possibly far away, and even more common with the entire Russian nation.

The construction of structures in the traditional Russian style creates for the inhabitants of the Russian cities and settlements a sense of identification with their land, as well as their unity with the thousand-year history of the Russian nation. This is a source of a person's moral health, based on a sense of the non-coincidence of finding oneself in a given place, on one's own land.

Under the terms of the competition, the purpose of the container hut is a student dormitory.

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The container hut consists of an unheated log basement. The next two tiers are occupied by residential blocks, consisting of 16 containers. The structure is crowned with an attic floor, located in the pitched roof space.

Residential blocks are two adjacent containers that form a closed group of rooms, consisting of bedrooms, bathrooms, and a common room for eating and resting.

In the attic floor there are premises for self-study for students and recreation areas.

The cross-shaped corridor running through the residential floors of the hut serves not only as a space containing stairs and passages to the residential blocks, but also as a light corridor that allows you to illuminate the premises inside the hut.

The container hut from the construction site to the location can be moved by fixing the cables of the tractors to the walls of the premises in the middle of the basement. The lower logs of the log house form improvised runners, convenient for dragging. The walls of the rooms in the middle of the basement (the rooms form a cross in the plan) create a rigid frame that allows the structure to be kept safe during transportation.

The container hut can be floated down the rivers by placing the pontoons in the basement rooms.

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