Designing & rebuilding the new world – part 1
The 21st century is shaping up with new challenges, the virus is out breaking but we have to think that at one point will pass and we still have to evolve and develop our communities and world. There are so many projects around the world, about globalization and urbanization boom, that are creating new, vibrant and interconnected communities. United Nations estimate is projecting that by 2050 around 70% of the world’s population will live in cities, we have to think how will increase the housing capabilities, without taking to much green space and affecting the already ultra suffocated suburbs?
Lets take a look at the new buildings around the world, they tend to be much lighter, not to much concrete, and environmental friendly. Some architects are already looking at the next best building material to use: the shipping container. All over the world these innovative living structures are creating a huge opportunity, even if they are unusual, they attract not only the architects but also the potential buyers and tenants.
Let’s see how many ways we can use shipping container buildings to change the urban living around the world.
We can provide affordable housing stock in cities
We’ve all seen the numbers from cities like San Francisco and New York. Rent and mortgage prices in the world’s most desirable metropolitan areas have skyrocketed and will go up. Maybe now with the pandemic will go lower, and then when everything gets back will go up again. This happened before when the 2008 crisis had everyone on their knees and then prices exploded again after the recovery. . However, a report from Citylab says that the problem is no longer confined to just the mega-cities but is increasingly spreading to smaller ones as well.
To solve this problem, we need affordable housing, and we need it fast. Container apartments are one increasingly popular solution, and they’re getting tenants as quickly as developers can build them.
According to AZ Central, Phoenix’s first container apartment building had a waiting list almost as soon as it opened for business. At a relatively modest $1,000 per month, it’s definitely within reach for most middle-class city-dwellers. And the more quickly these dwellings reach full occupancy, the more they get built — a second container apartment complex recently opened in Phoenix due to the success of the first apartments.
Why not offer the people a chance to have affordable housing and try to hep them, when we can use less expensive solutions to build, and in the same time save the environment from all the steel waste that is going on every year all over the planet.
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