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Díez Amate, Marta and Brotas, Luisa (2014) Container architecture: a new emergent sustainable culture? In: 4th Masters Conference 2014 People and Buildings, 19 September 2014, London, UK.
This paper aims to extend the container architectural knowledge further while assessing if this relatively new type of architecture can be considered as a sustainable construction method. The research offers an overview about the main advantages and disadvantages about this kind of architecture showing examples while analysing them within a sustainable development concerning the social, economic and environmental dimension. The thermal performance of the 40 ft container is assessed in terms of the energy consumption for heating and cooling (if an active system is in place) taking into consideration several parameters such as location, orientation and number of windows. The energy consumption of this type of architecture is also compared with the traditional one adopting construction methods such as concrete and wooden fabrics. Additionally, results are compared with the typical UK Benchmarks for dwellings in order to show if containers can comply with the minimum energy consumption recommended by the UK regulations as well as the amount of CO2 emissions emitted by the containers.
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