Possibilities

Container homes are being used for everything from disaster relief to college dormitories and everything in between.  With so many options out there, I thought I could not possibly choose which to design for.  One might have more constraints, more creative freedom, or more specifications; I had to weigh the pros and cons of each choice.  I finally narrowed it down to three options: disaster relief, group homes, or military housing.  Disaster relief was a good option as there is a growing need in this day and age for quick, portable, and cheap relief housing.  I would not have to worry so much about specifications and space would not be as much of an issue, but I would be very limited in my creativity as the design would need to have limited on sight set-up, as well as just being the bare minimum of temporary housing.  Group housing was on the other end of this.  I would have total creative freedom, but would have to worry about specifications, space for multiple persons, and permanent housing.  Military housing was the perfect medium.  It offers me an amount of creative freedom with my design, while still being temporary housing and not having to worry about the small space and the comfort factor.  Though a drawback is the military does have strict specifications I will have to design too, but with further research I found that was a good thing as there is not much other readily available information about container home specifications.

            In proceeding with designing container housing for the military, I needed to pick an area to base my simulation off of; I choose the deserts of Arizona as the climate simulates that of the climates of the Middle East and I can easily get the numbers I need about Arizona.  Arizona was also a good choice as though the days are brutally hot the climate is very arid which suits container living very well.

Here is a mind blowing website about the different uses of shipping containers

http://www.tempohousing.com/projects