Low – Tech Texas Container Retreat
A 2009 Residential Architect Design Award has received by low-tech retreat vacation cabin in the home less than 3,500 square feet category in April 2009. As Kate Murphy also published an article about the home last week that’s why the NY Times may have noticed. Mark T. Wellen of Rhotenberry Wellen Architects had designed this low-tech retreat by referred to as Camp Cinco for owner Roger Black and it was constructed by placing five shipping containers on hand-dug piers. But one thing is there, the design is striking and simple.
Camp Cinco distributes the tough home features into various containers. First unit is for storage, another one has kitchen amenities and each of the last three have a bathroom and bed. The interiors are minimalist and clean means they are just perfect for relaxing in the middle or anywhere and each unit has sliding glass doors, behind the cargo doors. Therefore, the monstrous Texas insects and animals stay outside while from the inside, the occupants gaze at the passing horizon.
The roofs on Camp Cinco provides both cooling and visual benefits, so it just similar to what we have felt with the steel canopy on the Ultimate Desert House. Thus, the roof from the Texas sun will absorb a portion of the heat and shade the home also, while by winds passing between corrugated steel and the container, some of the rest of the heat will be cooled.
Residential Architect had reported that the construction cost at 800 square feet was about $202 per square foot for the project and puts the budget at roughly $161,600 for the overall construction (not design or land).
Now, we just want to say at last that if you are interested in its background story then we would suggest you to read the owner’s own account of how such things had happened?
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