Creation of musical leisure spaces reusing shipping containers.

Study: Creation of musical leisure spaces reusing shipping containers.

David Vaca Muñoz Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design and Product Development

Neus Fradera Tejedor

Content

1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 5

1.1 Objective definition ....................................................................................... 6

1.2 Project scope ................................................................................................ 6

1.3 Project specifications .................................................................................... 6

1.4 Project Planning ........................................................................................... 6

2 Conceptual analysis ............................................................................................ 9

2.1 Shipping container and history ..................................................................... 9

2.2 Material and treatment ............................................................................... 14

2.3 Using shipping containers in construction ................................................. 16

2.3.1 Benefits ................................................................................................ 18

2.3.2 Inconveniences .................................................................................... 19

2.4 Construction process .................................................................................. 20

2.4.1 Foundation ........................................................................................... 20

2.4.2 Structural system ................................................................................. 21

2.4.3 Isolation and facilities .......................................................................... 22

2.5 Shipping containers examples ................................................................... 28

2.6 State of Art: Cultural spaces ...................................................................... 50

3 Product/service needs....................................................................................... 57

3.1 Shipping-containers buildings SWOT ........................................................ 58

3.2 Public practice rooms SWOT ..................................................................... 59

3.3 Musical survey ............................................................................................ 61

3.4 Survey results. ............................................................................................ 67

3.5 Producing room interview ........................................................................... 68

3.6 Interviews and surveys conclusions .......................................................... 70

4 Product definition ............................................................................................... 71

4.1 Modular design ........................................................................................... 71

4.2 Interior adaptation and isolation. Green roof ............................................. 71

4.3 Doors, windows and ventilation ................................................................. 74

4.4 Lighting, temperature and humidity. Electric network ............................... 75

4.5 Soundproof room and furniture .................................................................. 78

4.6 Entrance and use ....................................................................................... 79

4.7 Distribution for multiple rooms and surroundings ...................................... 79

4.8 Branding ...................................................................................................... 80

4.9 Local artist support ..................................................................................... 81

5 Economic viability, legislation and environmental analysis ............................. 82

5.1 Project cost ................................................................................................. 82

5.2 Economic model ......................................................................................... 84

5.3 Legislation and contractual specifications ................................................. 85

5.4 Environmental analysis .............................................................................. 86

6 Product result .................................................................................................... 87

6.1 Internal room ............................................................................................... 87

........................................................................................................................... 87

6.2 Artist support ............................................................................................... 89

6.3 Green roof and AC ..................................................................................... 90

6.4 Designed bench for storage ....................................................................... 90

6.5 External single appearance........................................................................ 91

6.6 Multiple configuration examples ................................................................ 92

6.7 Logo ............................................................................................................ 94

6.8 App .............................................................................................................. 94

6.9 Conceptual poster ...................................................................................... 95

7 Conclusions ....................................................................................................... 96

7.1 Continuity .................................................................................................... 96

7.2 Personal valuation ...................................................................................... 97

8 Annex ................................................................................................................. 98

8.1 Honour declaration ..................................................................................... 98

8.2 Lighting Datasheet ..................................................................................... 99

8.3 Shipping container drawings .................................................................... 100

8.4 Storage bench drawings .......................................................................... 100

8.5 Prices justification ..................................................................................... 101

9 Bibliography and resources ............................................................................ 113

9.1 Regulations ............................................................................................... 113

9.2 Patents ...................................................................................................... 113

9.3 Biography .................................................................................................. 114

9.4 Consulted TFG and TFM ......................................................................... 114

9.5 Webography ............................................................................................. 115

Image index

Image 1 US2853968A figure.................................................................................. 9

Image 2 4854094 US Patent figure ..................................................................... 10

Image 3 Shipping container composition parts scheme ..................................... 14

Image 4 Schematic illustration of the corrosion product layers identified on steels

exposed to ............................................................................................................ 15

Image 5 Reiulf Ramstad - Chemin des Carrières installations. .......................... 15

Image 6 Wuhan temporally hospital construction ............................................... 17

Image 7 Corner locking mechanism .................................................................... 17

Image 8 Concrete pile foundation Image 9 Slab foundation ........................ 20

Image 10 Anonimous shipping container project using concrete pile foundation

.............................................................................................................................. 21

Image 11 Master Thesis - Andrew Giruinas Thesis: Maximum Applied Force and

Displacement at Yielding for Loading Scenario 1 ............................................... 21

Image 12 Modern house project process – Steel reinforce ................................ 22

Image 13 Modern house project process - Inner wood frames .......................... 23

Image 14 Modern house project process - Wood inner frames lock .................. 23

Image 15 Modern house project process - Electric installation and thermic

isolation ................................................................................................................. 24

Image 16 Modern house project process – Internal walls .................................. 24

Image 17 Modern house project process - Painting ........................................... 25

Image 18 Green roof composition ....................................................................... 73

Image 19 Bioclimate diagram .............................................................................. 77

Table index

Table 1 ISO 668 Shipping container measures .................................................. 10

Table 2 CorTen metal properties ......................................................................... 16

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1 Introduction On an increasingly exploited planet, where the excessive use of natural

resources, lack of social and environmental awareness brings natural

disasters, we find around the world a huge human waste footprint which seems

to be bigger every day.

Finishing my Industrial Design studies where I have found great professors

and amazing people, helped me to grow myself trying to apply sustainability

values being conscious about our reality, one that brings directly to planet

destruction according to Scientifics.

Making effort to generate ideas based on reusing existing resources, appears

the concept of reusing shipping containers in order to create a proposal that

solves a social need and stablish human interactions.

It is normal to see this type of containers on shipping ports waiting for next use

which sometimes never comes, that generates extra cost for the company. For

those non used recipients, they are usually being sold at auction to the best

bidder.

For the last years we have been able to see many original projects that have

used this element to create any type of space, from small pop-up stores to

fancy houses, showing how powerful and great is this idea.

International regulations allow to manipulate this shipping containers easily

using them in any transport type with normalized elements. Its square structure

minimizes all non-used space, making the hole process, from manufacture to

the end of its utility life, cheaper and worth.

Moreover, this geometry allows to generate modular ideas, evolving to a

specific design based on the need and requirements for the final client. This

reutilization promotes a circular economy and reduces environmental impact

in all container live cycle.

Knowing all this context, this project focusses the need of reusing shipping

containers to create music rooms where people could reconnect with basic

human interactions.

Hope the reader enjoys this project.

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1.1 Objective definition

- Acquire knowledge about the general construction procedure using shipping containers, showing real examples.

- Study about cultural, society and musical spaces where population could create content and how this places interact with people.

- Population needs projection into a shipping container construction. - Business model study and formulation based on the created service or

product.

1.2 Project scope The present study includes:

- Actual analysis about music studios and cooperative spaces. - Study about shipping container reuse and constructions. - Create a general process explaining how to restore and use this element

as a construction module. - Design alternatives analysis and final solution proposal. - The present study does not include:

- Any type of physic prototype. - Buying any product which could increment study cost.

1.3 Project specifications The initial specifications are the following ones:

- Room which allows a good people interact inside the room, based on

container standard dimensions, and good work flow.

- Modular design which allows to generate different distribution proposals

depending on the need.

- Place with good soundproofing, avoiding loud sounds enter or leave.

- All specifications are abiding by possible changes during this study and

population studies, which the product is designed for, adding, erasing or

modifying this and others.

1.4 Project Planning Initial planning is illustrative and it will be followed whenever is possible. All timing

errors could diversion initial planning, generating a parallel and real organization.

Both schemes will be shown to see at the end how accurate the organization was.

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Initial Gant layout

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Real Gant layout

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2 Conceptual analysis 2.1 Shipping container and history

A shipping container is a metallic extended box used to transport solid, liquid or

gas elements on maritime logistics, even they can be carried by train or lorries. It

has eight anchor points placed on its corners, which allows to handle and block

the load during the transportation.

Shipping containers allows to protect the cargo, being designed for a continuous

and durable use. Over 90% of all goods transports in the world are done by sea,

making this element an indispensable tool for sea transportation.

Its international use is promoted by standard regulations, as ISO 668 or

UNE117101:2003, that facilitate cargo ship dimensions, all manipulate tools and

vehicles design besides optimising used space on stowage, reducing costs in the

hole process. When manufacture, all ship containers are designed as the

standards requires.

Today we can find huge number of this empty and unused containers sitting at

shipping docks, mainly because sending back an empty container is more

expensive than buying a new one from Asia, creating huge surfaces with

uncountable non used recipients.

According to Drewry Maritime Research, global container fleet has over 32.9

million 20-foot standard containers, demonstrating no shortage of this elements

today.

Even the first ideas for unifying a load on a recipient

were on the early XX century, it was not until 1953

when a business owner and driver from North

Carolina (USA), Malcom MacLean, noticed all

wasted time during the boat load process, problem

that generated traffic on the port roads and thought

a general process.

After that, he suggested to load all cargo with the

base chassis from the lorries, and later, all the box

form the vehicle, creating the ship container

concept. Thanks to this initiative success and help

from US army, in less than a decade this system

expanded worldwide due to its loading time and

space optimization. Seeing the success, MacLean

suggested a standardization from these recipients,

releasing the patent US2853968A - “Apparatus for

shipping freight.”

Image 1 US2853968A figure

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It was not until November 23, 1987, when Pillip C. Clark file for a US patent

described as a “Method for converting one or more steel shipping containers into

a habitable building at a building site and the product thereof”, and granted with

the patent 4854094.

Image 2 4854094 US Patent figure

Nowadays, even there are different standardized sizes the common are the ones

with 20 or 40 feet long (6 or 12 meters) with the following measurements:

ISO name 1AA 40’

High cube

1CC 20’

Exterior length(m) 12,192 12,192 6,058

Interior length (m) 11,998 11,998 5,867

Exterior width (m) 2,438 2,438 2,438

Interior width (m) 2,330 2,330 2,330

Exterior height(m) 2,591 2,896 2,591

Interior height (m) 5,350 2,649 2,350

Volume capacity (m3) 67 76 33

Metric tonnes capacity (m3) 26,8 26,6 21,8

Metric tonnes tare 3,7 3,9 2,2

Maxim weight (tare+load) (tonnes) 30,5 30,5 24 Table 1 ISO 668 Shipping container measures

Independently from the size, we can find different container typology:

Dry container Maded by rigid sheets of metal, this container is the more used one because allows general uses. Once is closed by its main door, remains waterproof.

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Flat rack With two abatable sides for multiple use, this container allows to bring huge cargo loads. Its structure is designed to carry bigger loads as trucks or heavy machinery among others.

Open top For cargos that can’t be loaded easily by main door, this container type allows to remove the top of it to make easier the container load.

Double door Better known as “tunnel container”, two doors containers allow to load and unload goods extremely fast. Its mechanism is similar to the dry container ones

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Open side containers With one regular and one lateral door, this container type allows to facilite the acces of the cargo, making it easier to load and unload.

ISO Refeer containers This container allows to transport perishible goods as meat, fruit or vegetables among others. Its coolin sistems relies on external power, supplied by main cargo ship.

Insulated containers Similar to ISO Refeer containers, this element has a regulating temperature system that allows to maintain the cargo in a higher temperature. They are equipped to cool or heat the air inside the container. They have similiar inner structure a “thermos” bottles, allowing to transport blood, organs, biological materials or chemicals among others.

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Half-height containers These containers are designed with half or the normal height. They are used to transport heavy and hight-density loads, such as coal or stone among others. Half-height containers can be loaded more easyly thanks to its low gravitiy point placement.

Tank For liquid or gas materials, this container type maded by anti-corrosive materials for long-life transportation. Must be loaded from 80% to 95% from its total inner volume to avoid innecessary risk.

Swap Body Designed for rail and road transportation only, this container type is suitable for shipping range of goods because of its removable top. They do not have upper corner fitting making them unstackable.

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In bulk container For any in bulk cargo, this container type allows to transport this type of goods without more packaging.

Even there are many container types, the more economic models due to its

abundance are the 20 feet, 20 feet high cube, 40 feet and high cube 40 feet

long. All buildings seen with this type of element are using containers of this

measurements. For the following study development we will always consider this

4 types of container.

2.2 Material and treatment Shipping containers are made by metal even we can find, rarely, with fiberglass.

All shipping containers are composed by 8 corners where main beam structure

is soldered. Walls are made by corrugated metal sheets that are unified at the

edges, same as the roof. The floor is composed by metal beams joined at the

base with a floor parquet that distribute all cargo weight on these crossbars, as

seen on the image.

Image 3 Shipping container composition parts scheme

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All containers have a similar procedure, depending on how many doors or

composition this element will have.

Mainly, all metal containers are composed by CorTen metal. Thanks to its

chemical composition (main steel with chromium, copper and nickel) this metal

can resist all kind of weather by making an external oxide layer which protects

the rest of material, stopping the corrosion process.

Image 4 Schematic illustration of the corrosion product layers identified on steels exposed to

This material is normally seen in non-painted metal architecture or any kind of

metal structure which is going to be exposed on external weather with no

treatment.

Once this structure is welded, an inner

and external anticorrosion paint

treatment is applied in the hole

structure. Then, hand lock and rubber

door gasket are installed.

Normally, shipping containers are

painted with anticorrosion paint to

make it more resistant and beautiful.

Non panting the structure could mean

a huge loss of non oxided material that

could not guarantee initial mechanic

properties, collapsing the structure

when maximum solicitation is being

applied.

Finally, shipping container cross thought a water tunnel where a quality control

department check all seals and welding’s, guaranteeing a correct water proof.

Corten chemical structure Element Al C Cr Cu Mn Ni P S Si

Min. (%) 0,015 0,50 0,25 0,20 0,07 0,25

Max. (%) 0,06 0,12 1,25 0,55 0,50 0,65 0,15 0,03 0,75

Image 5 Reiulf Ramstad - Chemin des Carrières installations.

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Mechanichal prop. Yield Strenght (Re) 355 Mpa

Tensile Strenght (Rm) 470 - 630 Mpa

Elongation (A80) 22% Table 2 CorTen metal properties

During the container work-life, this element can suffer hits, scratches or breaks

among other damages which can be repaired.

Many companies offer reparation services as welding patches or new locking

handles, fitting new rubber door gasket or repainting among others. Almost all

common damages can be repaired.

2.3 Using shipping containers in construction A shipping container can be named by ISO container, container box or cargo

container among others. However, when we refer this item as a construction

material, it can be called Intermodal Steel Building Unit (ISBU).

When a building is designed, terms as rigid, long term materials and economic

costs among other parameters are all considered before accepting any project.

Containers respect all of them, allowing to create economical spaces, quickly

and secure.

Because of its big supply, used dry containers could cost over 1500 to 2500€ and

new ones over 4000€. Due to its modular characteristics, container buildings can

be upgraded depending on the user necessity, which could change during the

building life.

Its continuous use design makes this element perfect to create rigid structures

supporting almost any climate situations. Reusing this container also protects

environment, being an eco-friendly and sustainable design project.

Small constructions, as pop up shops, do not need foundations when the ground

is flat and stable as park floors, city squares or gardens, reducing the geological

impact when building.

Container architecture is really fast to build, creating small spaces in less than a

day. The Wuhan Hospital, for 1000 people in the first infected area by

coronavirus at China, was been builder by this concept in two weeks, showing

the world how fast human can react when needed facilities.

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Image 6 Wuhan temporally hospital construction

Even this element has real useful characteristics, it has not been designed for

construction. Because of that, containers miss basic buildings requirements as

thermal and soundproof isolation, windows and doors apertures and internal

separations.

Structural joints can be done by corner locking mechanism, as seen on the

following image, as welding with any mechanic lock.

Image 7 Corner locking mechanism

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2.3.1 Benefits Building with shipping containers allows to:

Create affordable spaces. Low cost architecture is related with low amount

of materials and working operators during the construction, compared to

traditional houses, low resources during utility life and lower impact when

removing structure, offering the resident to save money. This process can be

done by lot of DIY labour and a small amount of help.

This creation allows to decrease the time used to build, which reduces costs

too. Shipping architecture requires lesser gears than traditional building.

Direct help to environment. Taking residues to create this type of spaces

allows to reduce cost and waste footprint, giving extra added value to this

type of product.

Accessible construction components worldwide. Thanks to international

commerce, shipping containers can be found in any port all over the world.

Proximity reduces cost and pollution caused by transportation.

Metal structure guarantees resistant and safe buildings. Metal can be welded

easily, allowing to create personalized spaces based on client desires.

Modular concept allows to create different and upgradeable spaces where

can be changed during building life circle.

Standard measures allow to know exact dimensions which help in design

process and gives capacity to transport containers almost anywhere.

Can use the same space distribution of traditional buildings, allowing to use

the maximum space available.

Fast architecture, being able to create habitable spaces in less than 3 weeks.

As ordinary building, creation time depends on how big and complex the

building could be.

Offsite construction, being able to make a lot of process in a workshop.

Easy to transport for mountable and detachable designs, being a great idea

for Pop-Up stores and temporally builds.

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2.3.2 Inconveniences There are some disadvantages designers must know when building with shipping

containers:

Low thermal isolation. Because of its material, shipping containers absorb

and transmit heat and cold very well. Using correct isolation can solve this

problem but taking more inner space, making a smaller habitable space.

Maintenance work. Normally, this architecture takes used shipping

containers that may be scratched or dented which must be refurbished

correctly. This building type also needs to be painted every few years and

checked constantly for any structure problem, which can damage the hole

building.

Big ecological footprint impact. Huge amount of carbon emissions is

associated during the transport and assembling.

Health hazard. Shipping containers are not designed for human habitation.

Because of that, many dangerous chemicals like arsenic and chromium are

used in the original wood floor to evade pests and inner painting uses

chromate, phosphorous and lead-based paints. The hole structure needs to

be sandblasted or internally well encapsulated by changing the floor and

covering walls, which could be good idea to resolve isolation problems.

One single container building creates an awkward space, creating narrow

spaces uncomfortable for long term human home.

Shipping containers architecture make sense when containers are in

abundance and close or places where residents needs immediate

international help because natural disasters, dieses or others, like in Wuhan

hospital.

Using new containers to avoid scratches or dented is against the idea of

recycling and reduce waste footprint.

Rejection in this type of building. In some countries, classic brick houses are

well rooted on society making shipping container not popular as they should

be.

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2.4 Construction process When creating a cargo container building, there are design criteria that must be

followed. For some architects and designers, reusing containers must be linked

to an eco-friendly and low-cost architecture.

“Low cost architecture is not only economical in its beginning but the one which

needs low resources over time and involve a low environmental impact during its

life, disassembly and demolition”

Eugeni Bach

2.4.1 Foundation As any dwelling, long term shipping container buildings requires foundations to

keep the integrity of the hole structure. For some small and portable buildings,

pop up stores or similar, this may not be necessary at all, depending on how long

the container is going to be on the site or ground conditions like level or

dampness.

Because of its relative young age concept, foundation types used in this building

have been changing. Most used ones are concrete pile or slab-on-grade

foundation which do not allow basement construction. Other foundation types

used are drilled pier system and pile system.

Concrete pile is the easiest and faster because distribute all weight in a few

points, being enough for small buildings. This foundation type can be used for

bigger structures with longer piles and bigger transversal section and more

number of them.

Slap foundation requires more time and work because due to its flat surface. If

there are no extra piles, container could remain on floor, helping to create

habitable space.

These foundations must be done with a previous layout to level the building

correctly, normally made by wood and ropes. Once the concrete is applied, bolds

to anchor the structure must be installed.

Image 8 Concrete pile foundation Image 9 Slab foundation

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For small and economical houses is recommended to apply concrete pile

foundation if the ground allows to. This system uses less resources and time,

being more economical with the minimum ecological impact, isolating the building

from the ground.

2.4.2 Structural system Container structure is designed to stack 7 containers upwards. However, for

some buildings is required to remove a part or the whole from one or more walls,

compromising the structure integrity, affecting to strength and safety as Kevin

Andrew Giriunas concluded in his Master Thesis using CAE analysis with

SolidWorks, concluding that roof have little structural significate when applying

vertical forces. This document also shows different scenario where different

number of walls are removed and how the cargo container interacts with

solicitations.

Image 11 Master Thesis - Andrew Giruinas Thesis: Maximum Applied Force and Displacement at Yielding for Loading Scenario 1

Image 10 Anonimous shipping container project using concrete pile foundation

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Image 12 Modern house project process – Steel reinforce

There are many common methods to reinforce a modified standard container,

giving back safety and strength when building. Steel guardrails can be welded on

the base to avoid deformation and join different containers. Also, assembling

windows and doors metal profiles guarantees structural integrity.

2.4.3 Isolation and facilities Once the whole structure is finished, dwelling must keep human habitability

standards, depending on which country is the design constructed. The value of

the construction must be the maximum as possible minimizing the resources

needed to keep the house in habitability conditions, as temperature, humpty and

isolation which can be done externally or internally. Standards like passive-

house, which restricts energy use to 15KW m2/year, and similar concepts can

help to reduce active technology, reducing cost during utility life and minimizing

CO2 emissions.

External isolation guarantees to use maximum habitability space, respecting the

inner measures and giving a classic-house aesthetic. This procedure does not

leverage external container cover, forcing to create an external waterproof

structure becoming expensive.

Internal isolation uses all container external characteristics, as waterproof and

anti-corrosion properties, by creating an inner frame, normally made by wood,

with plasterboard or similar isolation where electrical and water facilities can be

installed, respecting the external container design, which gives evidence of an

eco-friendly house. Normally, this isolation type requires to paint the structure

and creating waterproof joints, which can be done with impermeabilization

procedures. This inner isolation also removes habitability space, which can be a

bad factor for single container homes.

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Image 13 Modern house project process - Inner wood frames

Image 14 Modern house project process - Wood inner frames lock

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Image 15 Modern house project process - Electric installation and thermic isolation

Image 16 Modern house project process – Internal walls

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Image 17 Modern house project process - Painting

Community shares shipping container architecture procedure, like The Modern

Home Project by Ben Uyeda, helps to visualize step by step how people can

create their own home and solve construction problems.

Our project tries to create a space using low-cost architecture principles. Because

of that, it is highly recommended to use, if it is needed, concrete pile foundations

and internal isolation, when conditions like habitability space permit, which can

be used to install water, heat and electric facilities.

There is a wide selection of materials we can use to isolate a shipping container,

depending on the purpose, protecting the space from humidity, heat and cold

transfer, radiation, external sounds and internal echo. There are some factors

that must be considered when isolating:

R-value, a measure of how well a two-dimensional barrier resist the

conductive flow of heat.

Interior space result after isolating and installing walls.

Prevent air leakage by selling correctly all window and door frames among

other items.

Vapour permeability, related how well the isolation prevents vapour from

migrating thought and staying in it.

Environmental impact, which can depend on the type of isolation.

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Material type

Photo Material type

Photo

Thermal isolation

Reflective thermal insulation

Expanding foam

Expanded polystyrene

Open-Cell Spray Polyurethane Foam

Extruded polystyrene

Damp-Spray Cellulose:

Thermal-Acoustic isolation

Mineral wool, made by rock or glass fibre

Wood Wool panel

Acoustic isolation

Copopren polyurethane acoustic foam

Elastomeric bitumen sheet

Polyester profiled acoustic foam

Ecofriendly isolation

Cellulose isolation

Cotton isolation

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Hemp isolation and hempcrete

Sheep’s wool isolation

Cork isolation

Straw Bale

Other Thermal Energy Control Ideas

Green Roof

Passive Heating and Cooling Design

For any project where sound isolation must be considered,

This project searches the possibility to isolate form heat transfer, humidity and

sound as much as it can. As a music space, sound must not create echo noise,

must not been disturb by external sounds without losing comfortability where

musicians could stay as much as they like, by using mineral wool between walls

and good acoustic isolation inside the room as foams or sheets.

Other sound isolation technics use non parallel walls and porous materials which

can absorb sound waves.

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2.5 Shipping containers examples Eco-friendly and cheap houses create economic opportunities for architecture

studios and industrial designers.

There are uncountable shipping container buildings. In this section, some great

examples around the world with different construction process will be shown,

teaching how many opportunities containers could bring, from temporally hotels

with no foundations to fancy houses.

Joshua tree residence. California, USA. Architect: Whitaker Studio

Location: Joshua Tree, California, USA

Number of container used: 19

Type of use: Residential

Made by multiple stacked and non-aligned shipping containers, this house shows

how creative this architecture could be. This building uses topography to provide

privacy.

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Container stack pavilion Architects: People’s Architecture Office

Location: Dongshan, Taiyuan Shi, Shanxi Sheng, China

Number of containers used: 12

Type of use: Public

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Sky is the limit Architects: Didier Faustino

Location: Yangyang, South Korea


Type of use: DMZ tea house

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Caution cinema Architects: ScottWhitbyStudio

Location: Varius ports in the UK


Type of use: exhibition

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Barneveld Noord railway station Architects: NL Architects

Location: Barneveld, The Netherlands


Type of use: Train station

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DLRG Station Architects: SKA Sibylle Kramer Architekten BDA

Location: Rissener Ufer, Hamburg, Germany


Type of use: Rescure station

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Oceanscope Architects: AnL Studio (Minsoo Lee + Keehyun Ahn)

Location: Song-do new city, Incheon, South Korea


Type of use: public observatory

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Cargo Architects: group8

Location: Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland


Type of use: workspace

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HAI D3

Architects: ibda design

Location: Dubai Design District, Dubai, United Arab Emirates


Type of use: mixed-use

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Casa oruga

Architects: Sebastián Irarrázaval Delpiano

Location: Los Trapenses, Lo Barnechea, Chile


Type of use: residential

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Huiini House

Architects: S+ DISEÑO / Arq. Sara Tamez

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico



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Bayside Marina Hotel

Architects: Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects

Location: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan


Type of use: hotel

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Amsterdam city hall

Architects: Fokkema & Partners Architecten

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Type of use: Temporary installation to house the public counters the Amsterdam

city hall offices

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Container guest house

Architects: POTEET ARCHITECTS

Location: San Antonio, Texas, USA


Type of use: Residential

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Cite A’Docks

Architects: Alberto et Charlotte Cattani architectes

Location: Le Havre, France


Type of use: student residence

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Tarifa House

Architects: James & Mau

Location: El Portón de Tarifa, Cádiz, Spain



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Roglab

Architects: Architektura Jure Kotnik

Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia


Type of use: creative laboratory for arts and crafts

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Incubo House

Architects: Maria Jose Trejos

Location: Escazú, San José, Costa Rica



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Tony’s Farm

Architects: Playze China

Location: Pudong New District, Shanghai China


Type of use: reception, offices and meeting rooms combined with an existing

production warehouse

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Sleeping Around

Architects: All over the world

Location: Sleeping Arround: Didier Opdebeek, Ellen Wezenbeek, Geoffrey

Stampaert, Marco Los


Type of use: pop-up hotel

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CCPP

Architects: COCHENKO, QUATORZE, BUTONG

Location: Paris, France


Type of use: exhibition

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Cruise Ship Terminal

Architects: Hombre de Piedra + Buró4 Architects

Location: Muelle de las delicias, Seville, Spain


Type of use: cruise ship terminal and exhibition center

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2.6 State of Art: Cultural spaces

Hearth Healthy Hoods tries to find the associations between the social and

physical features of the urban environment in relation to population

cardiovascular health. Manuel Franco, epidemiologist and public health expert,

relates citizen’s health with an active lifestyle.

“Staying 4 or 5 hours watching TV after being closed the hole day at work it is a

completely disaster for our health, brain and society”

- Manuel Franco

This concept could help countries like Spain where 80% of population reside in

cities, which seems to care more about tourists than residents. In consequence,

taking care of habitants could reduce death rate and public health outlay, among

others.

Public spaces should have enough tools to share values, culture, arts and crafts

among other active behaviours, creating a well interacted society.

In our country, there are some places where great architects, cultural collectives

or social organization have been working hard to transform private locations or

abandoned buildings into public spaces. All of them try to connect people with

human cooperation, nature contact and our culture.

Matadero Madrid.

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Campo de cevada, La Latina, Madrid

La Filanda. La Garriga

Vapor Aymerich, Amat i Jover. Terrassa

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Factoría Joven, Mérida.

Centro socio comunicativo, Madrid

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This spaces have been created by encouraged people who want a change,

showing that this type of areas must exist, demonstrating self-management as

a viable social structure.

Most of this places share music too, helping people from all ages to learn even

there is no public offer in this matter.

Music is part of our life, and for some, even more. In Spain, music students or

professionals who must play some instrument over 5-6 hours per day, do not

have tools to follow their vocation as they would like. Some of them must practice

at home, disturbing the neighbourhood. Others must pay for a private local which

could not guarantee al needed conditions, being expensive and not affordable for

everyone. For others, instrument could not be easily moved, as pianos, harp or

drums.

In Catalonia, Spain, public schools treat music subject as a secondary and

useless subject. There are few institutions that teach musicians as ESMUC or

Fundació Conservatori Liceu, with high prices. These entities have spaces to

study, even they are not enough for all students, as shown below.

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These rooms are always busy, conditioning the time of study. Once the students

have finished their career, they cannot use these facilities again.

A company called “Music Traveller” has develop a website where musicians can

publish a room to be rented, with expensive prices which everyone could not pay.

Our society should bring correct tools for self-development. But nowadays, we

cannot see public spaces as we would like to where knowledge could be shared,

as Public Libraries or Public practice rooms. In some European countries we

can find this type of public facilities.

Public library, United Kingdom

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Kultursenteret ISAK, Norway

In 2011, BDP architects developed for the Manchester international festival a

temporally space where people could enjoy different activities in public, made of

shipping containers.

This project shows that public space can be filled by public music facilities easily.

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There are private projects which tries to create music studios using this

opportunities, as Boombox DC (DC, USA), BeatBox (UK) or Container Studios

(AUS) have been commercializing.

Analysing all this information, is easy to understand that public organization with

no hierarchy and profit interests, has enough tools to create something that

solves a real need, as music spaces for public use.

Sometimes, the lack of society tissue makes this type of projects hard to visualize,

even though they can be done.

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3 Product/service needs Before trying to create a product or service, a Design Thinking process must be

done in order to understand the needs from a specific problem.

Unfortunately, this study will not test the product or service even it will have a real

feedback from users which nowadays have difficulties to study music because

of infrastructure.

Firstly, I contact with Guillem Bautista, a great musician, magician and friend who

gave me real information about how a public practice room could help.

He told music studies requires constant and practice, over 6 hours per day,

making people to travel far away from home to find spaces to play, as the example

of “Conservatori de Badalona”, a kid’s conservatory witch is empty at mornings,

when kids are at school.

“Music is an elite studies because not everyone can access to music studies

because of quotes, instrument prices and spaces to practice” he says.

Seems public institutions are not aware of this problem or do not want no solve

it, as Badalona town hall, which already disdain public suggestions.

“A public space with public management could unify the hoods and cities,

stopping institutional aggression on residents, racism and classism. Music in

public schools is considered an irrelevant subject, even scientific studies show

how important music is for brain development, being one of twelve brain

intelligences, as Howard Gardner’s studies have shown. Music is an international

language which do not need words to express love, hate, union or any other

human feeling.

Projects like this could prevent young people to

get first touch in drugs and promote a healthy

lifestyle”

All information provided has been analysed

providing useful concepts, which has been

captured in a SWOT analysis.

SWOT procedure inspect positive and negative

characteristics which could be external or internal.

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External aspects are those factors which are not directly related to the product,

as the economy, social culture or similar products among others.

Internal aspects are related to the product characteristics and qualities, as its

shape, price or colour.

3.1 Shipping-containers buildings SWOT Intern analysis. Strengths

- International standards guarantee security, strength and waterproof in

shipping containers.

- Cheap to buy

- Easy to transport

- Can be easily welded with more metal elements and other shipping

containers

- Modular design allows to be creative, building a space based on the

needs.

- Easy to disassembly, reducing construction rubbish.

- Can be installed with no foundation if the ground allows.

Intern analysis. Weakness

- Requires a space where the containers will be placed

- To create habitable space, isolation and furniture must be installed, as

water, temperature and electric facilities.

- Expensive to transport and handle into spaces far away from docs.

- Limited module with fixed measures.

- Industrial aesthetic

External analysis. Opportunities

- Brings an eco-design perception

- Growing system, being able to reduce costs in future

- International regulations help to standardize this process

- Many tools are designed to interact with shipping containers.

- Easy to find companies which repair shipping containers

External analysis. Threats

- Non informed society about all benefits this process could bring

- Unpopular method

- Non actualized legislation and low institutional promotion.

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3.2 Public practice rooms SWOT

Internal analysis. Strengths

- Does not requires water facilities inside the main room

- Does not need professional sound isolation

- Does not requires a lot of furniture

- Great tool to society development

- Could be used for any cultural event

Intern analysis. Weakness

- Needs to study population in order to bring a space witch solves population

needs

- Requires expensive instruments which cannot be easily transported, like

piano or harp, as modern producing elements as speakers, software and

computer among others.

External analysis. Opportunities

- Solve a real need for musicians which do not have enough spaces in the

institutions they are learning. Once they finish the lessons, they cannot

access in that spaces, forcing them to pay for a room.

- Avoid noise in neighbourhoods

- Allows musicians to play at any time

- Can unite society in a common project

- Can bring music for those who do not have enough resources

- Could be promoted by public institutions

- Could bring new motivation in adolescents, avoiding contacts with drugs

External analysis. Threats

- Cooperative and shared spaces could not triumph in no values society

- Spanish culture usually does not cooperate in public matters.

- Public infrastructure with public use is not promoted in Spain.

Having all this information, the product or service can be firstly defined as a non-

professional music space with good isolation and sound proof, using individual

rooms that could be placed in groups to create an external and useful space,

where other cultural activities could be done.

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Music leisure with shipping

containers

Building process (Shipping containers) Function

Main

objectives

Standards

Modular

design

Easily

transported

Correct

proprieties

Practice

room

Cultural

space

Teaching

class

Art

exhibition

Provide tools for

self-development

Help young people

get closer to music

Cooperative project

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Once a simple concept is defined, a survey has been done to people who are

related directly to music, some of them musicians from big music groups,

explaining the concept to develop among other questions, obtaining valuable

information showed below. This form has been done in Spanish, it has two

sections and its results are shown in the same language as they have been

asked, with an English translation.

3.3 Musical survey

First section: Music experience and relation 1. Is music part of your daily routine?

2. Are you or would you like to be music professional?

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3. How many hours per day do you usually play/ compose/ produce music?

This questions reveals how much time musicians practise every day.

Average = 4 hours/day

4. Do you have any rented space to practise?

5. Do you think you have enough spaces or tools to develop your normal activity

at any time with any distraction?

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6. Do you think society consider music as a profession?

Section two: Concept evaluation 7. Concept explanation

As a Final Grade Project, public space is being developed, using shipping

containers where musicians could grow, following the practice rooms model.

They will be placed at public parks where workshops and other public activities

could be done for the hood or city where they are installed.

It is a social project that promotes music, offering a free schedule space and

noise, where musicians could develop its activity and share it with population.

This same space could be used as a cultural space to support local artists or

public festivities.

The main hypothesis is a public finance for this project, even different proposes

are been studied…

Two images bellow show what could it be a 3 rooms proposal, each independent.

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8. Do you think is a good idea?

9.How many times per week would you use a space like this?

Average= 2.625 ≈ 3 times per week

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10. If the project needs to be managed as private, how much would you pay per

month?

Average= 20 €/month

11. Do you think promoting music would make population healthier, physically

and mentally?

12. Do you think a better social tissue and promoting cultural activities, like art in

general, would avoid or postpone drug initiation in teenagers?

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13. What do you think this spaces should have?

This question asks for text answer. The results show, generally, good acoustic,

light and thermic conditions, sound equipment as microphones and amplifiers,

music stands, water and toilets, among other instruments like pianos or drums.

Some mirrors could be installed, which could help to create a perception of a

bigger room.

14. Any idea or opinion is well received. ¡In the following text square you can

leave yours!

As any survey, this question asks for any idea that could help. Some people have

given great support to this idea. Others have given a real feedback:

I think one space like this should go with a hard social and local work, including music

trainings, economic support and activities to implicate the local people. Also, this project

should consider professional musicians could have hard to dedicate many hours one after

other in a place like this. This rooms could not be good idea for professionals but a great

conception to culturalize the neighborhood.

-Anonymous

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3.4 Survey results. Realizing this survey helped to concrete the design. Specific function and

requirements have been defined:

1. Accessible for anyone, considering good placement and universal design.

2. Surrounding spaces should be public, as squares, parks or libraries

among others in order to give a social atmosphere and versatility in other

cultural acts. This area will have furniture to promote social tissue. This

project will not define this element, even it is considered necessary.

3. Interior spaces should be well soundproofed using wood or similar

aesthetic, an organic material that human relate to nature and wellbeing.

Rooms will always maintain good ventilation, temperature, light and

humidity level.

4. As any public space, public toilets and water supply should be placed near

the installation. This project will not define this element, even it is

considered necessary.

5. Rooms must be independent.

6. For any use, all users must leave the place cleaner than they have found.

For any material damage, users must notify.

7. External appearance will remain as the original geometry, preserving

shipping container image. External treatments as paint could be done to

preserve the structure.

8. Roof could be transformed into a green-roof, granting an ecologist image

which will also protect the rooms from thermal transfer.

9. Final structure will not be modified once the project is done. This structure

will only be checked for external scratches which could debilitate the

structure integrity.

10. Electric facilities will be installed without generators. Electric supply should

be provided by public electric network.

11. Final design will have elements to minimize active heating and cooling. Air

condition could be installed to preserve good conditions.

12. As modular and transportable concept, municipal licences will be applied

where the service is installed. Basic construction licences must be

respected.

13. Rooms will have windows to illuminate the rooms with natural light

whenever is possible.

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3.5 Producing room interview To validate all this requirements, private music rooms have been visited in

Badalona, near Barcelona. This rooms are all inside a main building with electric

entrance, with no time schedules and well soundproof. They are used for different

purpose, for bands, producers and amateur musicians. First interview focussed

on classical musicians so, in order to have some feedback from all music users,

an interview with previous results have been done to a music producer Roger

Sanchez, on Carrer d’Alfons XII 60, Badalona, 08915, Barcelona.

My room This producing space has 22 square meters and I share it with 3 other musicians.

We all pay 250€/month, over 60€ each. We do not earn much money but for us

its ok. If I had to pay it alone, I would continue but destining a huge part of my

salary.

This rooms should improve air renewal and soundproof. If I am producing, I

do not hear my neighbours but if I want to have a little break, I do. A friend of

mine, pay 400€ to barely soundproof that room, even if he has to leave, that

investment would be lost. I really miss windows and sunlight, as decoration.

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We can share this space when we are the 4 of ours. Producing requires bigger

space because of producing tools, which are big and expensive. Sometimes we

have done events with 15 or more people and space still great.

For a music band with 5 or 6 members, this space is enough to develop their

music.

Music and society Sharing a space instead of buying all components could be a great idea. It will

promote music which is aside at schools, where children are taught the basics

with a single instrument. I think I would have liked to know other instruments when

I was a kid. Maybe I could have had more motivation to develop myself in music.

I consider music is a profession where musicians are the product until you are

squeezed so you do not have more to offer. People value the brand, not the talent.

There is low music education. Our and future generations, generally, do only

listen commercial music and reggeaton. Other genres are despised.

Music space proposal I think this rooms should be accessible for everyone who want to use it. It should

have a register, where integrands pay for a monthly quote to cover material

damage.

I think this place should be one to promote music and give tools so people could

practise instruments, focussing on individual practise and instrumental brands. I

cannot transport all my producing tools at once, it will be impossible.

For a multiple container rooms configuration, some of them could be destined to

produce. Imagine 5 box, 3 could be practice rooms, one with a piano and other

with producing tools. That would be great!

People who I know are usually respectful with music materials. I think a place

with self-management should be limited with enrolment, to cover any damage.

If I could go, generally, at any hour for 20€ per month, I see that as a bargain!

At first sight, I see this project as a total success.

Common area Common area is a great idea! Sometimes, when I have been producing and I am

swamped, I miss a place where I can relax, sit down, eat something and just

being chill.

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3.6 Interviews and surveys conclusions

After analysing all data received, this project will define a music space where

musicians who play instruments and small bands could enjoy a space to practice.

Main rooms should offer tools to study and develop. For a multi-room projects,

some of these rooms could be installed, with some with piano and drums. One

could be considered for production, with correct tools for that.

In summary, this project will define music rooms to practice, with some music

materials like music stands, amplifiers and microphones. Inside this rooms,

furniture to sit down for 5 or 6 persons will be installed.

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4 Product definition Knowing all user necessity, product or service can be defined. This chapter

shows how this shipping container music room should be manufactured step by

step. Images and process has been done with Inventor Autodesk 2020

Student.

4.1 Modular design Shipping containers are designed to be transported by ground or sea. Designing

a single container space could help to relocate the rooms with any problem and

transport them ready to use with any modification, whenever the floor is levelled

and solid.

Modularity allows to use as much units as the location requires, and helps to

place them into any city.

For places where containers must be stacked up to optimize the space, they

could be locked by the same systems industry uses nowadays, seen on chapter

3.3. External structure to access upper containers could be installed, letting first

floor rooms for people with movement difficulties.

Because of natural lighting, this project will use 20 FT high cube containers. This

measure allows to delete main door and back wall, undamaging the structure, as

Andrew Giriunas concluded in his Master Thesis using CAE analysis, and

allowing to stack them for future designs, without need to install lateral windows.

For 40 ft containers, they could be internally spited in two to create 2 rooms with

the same measures as a single 20 ft container.

4.2 Interior adaptation and isolation. Green

roof Inner paints, as floor, could be harmful to humans if there is no protection. Many

projects do not sandblast inner walls which makes no sense when an inner frame,

which contains isolation and electric wiring, is going to be installed. Floor must be

removed before starting with that structure.

In this project doors as back wall will be removed. This paces should be

accessible at any time, that why they are unnecessary. For aesthetic reason, they

could be maintained.

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Secondly, new floor with isolation must be

installed. Then, an inner wood frame must

be placed in lateral walls and roof, where

later, thermal and acoustic isolation,

electric facilities, ventilation conducts

and air conditioning circuit will be

placed.

Later, all this facility must be covered by wood sheets, armed with wood screws.

This components will have all measures to respect electric plugs, light and air

conditioning installation.

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Many projects install green roofs, a system placed on roofs on existing buildings

for growing flora. All green roofs include drainage layers and root repellents to

keep the structure safe and undamaged. Can absorb huge solar radiation heat,

isolate form exterior and produce O2, which is a great idea to reduce active

heating and warming by reducing city pollution.

Plants also prevent the distribution

of smog and dust while also catching

many of the pollutants fond in the air.

Green roofs also protect buildings

from noise, promote a much longer

life from original roof structure,

provides fire retardation. They also

give a more aesthetic space. Cost is

over 8 to 20 € per square meter.

Normally, green roofs are made by

different layers to help plants to grow

without letting pass water or

humidity, solar radiation and heat.

The following scheme shows a

normally process.

Image 18 Green roof composition

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Our project will also have this type of element:

4.3 Doors, windows and ventilation This spaces will have a large window where the back wall was placed. Two slice

doors will be placed in the same place where original doors were.

This two elements with huge crystal area will provide natural light during daylight.

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4.4 Lighting, temperature and humidity.

Electric network

According to international directives as DIN 5034-1:2011-07 (Daylight in

interiors), UNE-EN 12464-1:2012 (Light and lighting) and DIN 5035 (Interior

lighting) and UNE-EN 60598-1:2015 (Luminaires), this place could be considered

as a library with normal visual tasks and a shared local. Illuminance should

respect values from 200 to 500 lux, with a warm light over 3000ºK.

Installation will use LED lighting which can be

economical, with a long utility life, over 50000 h

with great energy efficiency, over 60 – 120

lm/W. They also do not produce temperature.

Lighting study has been done with DIALUX 4,

using SIMON lighting, model, “Luminaria 720

Modular Advance - M2 120x30 WW 1-10V”,

with IP 40.

Specific datasheet can be found in annex

section.

Luminance will be simetric and generally difuse /semidirect lighting. Walls must

be painted to improve reflexive degree. Roof must have over 0.9 reflection degree

with light colours as white, walls will have over 0.8 reflection degree and floor will

keep a 0.1 reflection degree.

Results with this light type are the following ones:

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All values are calculated for a useful plan placed at 0.8m, same height for an

office desk, where is considered musicians play their instrument. Medium light

measure is 448 lx.

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Temperature and humidity inside the building are important parameters to

consider. Combination of two will decide comfort inside the room. UNE-EN ISO

7730:2006 (Ergonomics of the thermal environment) defines values to keep a

building with correct parameters. Temperature and humidity will be defined

dependently on the activity is being done inside and the clothes people will wear.

Bioclimate diagram specifies relation between temperature and humidity.

Image 19 Bioclimate diagram

This room offers space to study (intellectual work), sitting or standing.

Temperature must be kept over 21ºC and relative humidity over 45% on winter

and 65% on summer.

To keep correctly this conditions, automatic air conditioning will be installed.

Electric installation will feed lighting, active thermal installations and power supply

for users, which will be provided by public electric facilities. All rooms will fulfil all

electric directives as UNE 20062:1993 (Emergency lighting) among many other

Low Voltage Directive (LVD). This study will not define electric and electronic

standards, even these directives must be fulfil.

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4.5 Soundproof room and furniture Once external isolation has been done, inner soundproof must be installed to

avoid harmonic sounds and echo, usually done by non-parallel walls or materials

that absorb sound waves. Porous materials, as wood or foams are normally used

in this matter. Other cheap solutions reside in placing bed sheets on walls and

plants.

Interior walls are already wood, material that keeps that property. Plaster and

painting walls with clear colours will make this room more comfortable but loosing

sound absorption. For that, inner plants and sound foams will be installed for

better sound experience. For low height walls, small wooden board will be

installed. This element will upgrade the users experience.

Standard room could have banks with storage inside where the music elements

could be stored. One idea is shown below:

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4.6 Entrance and use This rooms will provide tools for people who are interested in using this rooms.

For that, registration with personal identification must be done. Every month,

users will have to pay a small contribution to keep these installations correctly

and renovate instruments and elements could be damaged.

Once users are logged, they will be able to log in on an online app to book hours

from available rooms.

To enter, users could scan a QR code to unlock the room for the hours requested.

4.7 Distribution for multiple rooms and

surroundings Distribution for multiple rooms could be different depending on how many

containers are needed. Local groups will decide how containers are placed,

depending on the available public space. In this section some examples will be

shown.

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4.8 Branding As any element, it should have a brand name, colours and defined design. This

concept becomes from a shipping container, similar to a box, where people could

play music.

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After some examples of design, The Sound Box will be the name. Done some

fast sketch, some ideas for final logo could be selected.

Outside, similar design form inside will be followed. Half container will be white

or other light colour, to avoid heat. Other half will be painted.

4.9 Local artist support Promoting culture is one of the main goals for this project. Supporting local artists

in the inside of the room, two spaces will be reserved to show their own projects

for free for a month. Once this period is finished, other artist will be able to show

other canvas.

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5 Economic viability, legislation and environmental analysis

5.1 Project cost Concept Description Price(€)/unit Unit Qty. Total (€)

Container 20FT High Cube Shipping container 1500,00 1 1500,00

Inner wood frame Structural wood frame for isolation (A= 2,5 x 15 cm) 4,05 m 166 672,30

Wood walls and roof Oriented Strand Board (OBS) wood board 6,80 m^2 54,7 371,96

Walls and roof isolation Mineral wool ultracoustic R=1,35 (m^2k/W) 1,62 m^2 40 64,80

Floor isolation 1 Acoustic sheet impactodan (cross-linked polyurethane) 1,54 m^2 11,4 17,56

Floor isolation 2 Mineral wool panel R=0,7 (m^2k/W) 13,17 m^2 11,4 150,14

Flor parquet Beech parquet with MDF 3,45 m^2 13,2 45,54

Window 2,3 x 2,5 window frame, triple glass 800,00 1 800,00

Door 2,3 x 2,5 door frame, triple glass 800,00 1 800,00

Green roof Commercialized green roof 20,00 m^2 14 280,00

External paint Anticorrosive mate coloured paint for metals (2,5l) 50,00 2 100,00

Inner cast Joint paste (25kg) 13,95 1 13,95

Inner paint Coloured plastic paint for inner walls (15 l) 15,00 1 15,00

Inner wood decoration Finsa wood panel for walls 7,99 m^2 10 79,90

Acoustic foam Sound deco polyurethane foam panel 16,67 m^2 12 200,04

Curtain Internal roll curtain 30,00 4 120,00

Lights Inner light panel (120 x 30 cm) 3000 K 30,00 4 120,00

Wood ramp Ramp for universal accessibility 20,00 1 20,00

AC installation AC components and installation 1500,00 1 1500,00

Music stand Music stand for musicians 17,00 6 102,00

Chairs Coloured chair 20,00 4 80,00

Bench Designed bench with drawer 70,00 2 140,00

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Electric installation Electric installation and components 20,00 hour 10 200,00

Door lock system Installation and configuration 50,00 hour 3 150,00

Painting Internal and external painting 20,00 hour 12 240,00

Structure installation Inner wood frame, isolation, and final installation 20,00 hour 20 400,00

Guitar amp Four guitar amp for electric instruments 48,00 4 192,00

Microphone Microphone with stand 46,00 1 46,00

Music componetns Wires, instrument tuning and others 200,00 1 200,00

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*all prices justified on section 9 - Annex

Engineer remuneration for this project - 8000€ + royalties

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5.2 Economic model

This project supposes a public financing for costs to create this spaces. As a

public tool for society problem, social founding should be use to cover all costs.

Supposing a space with 3 rooms in an already built park, could cost over

33.000 €, considering the costs for a tree container and the project remuneration.

This amount could be absorbed easily for any big city in social budget. In

Barcelona, every year 73 million € are used for cultural equipment and museums.

Surveys finds people would use this type of installations 3 times per week over 4

hours per day, 12 hours every seven days.

𝑈𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 (𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘) =168 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠

1 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘∗

1 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘 ∗ 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛

12 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠= 14 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠

Estimated, over 14 users or groups could use this container every month.

Surveys also discovered people could pay 20€ monthly for this spaces.

𝐼𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 (𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ) =20 €

1 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟∗ 14 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 =

280€

𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦

To simplify the economic study, viability will be studied for a single room.

The following table shows how much money a single container could collect:

Monthly Quote (€) Income per year (€)

20 3360 25 4200 30 5040 35 5880 40 6720

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Studying the monthly cost for each room:

Concept Energy Consumption (monthly)

Monthly * Cost (€)

Year Cost (€)

Lights 8 KW x 4 units 16 192

AC** 168 KW 84 1008

Monthly maintenance - 150 1800

Quote for music material renewal

- 200 2400

TOTAL 450 5400

* Considering 0,1€/kWh

** For 12 square meters, over 2200 frigory, over 2,5 KW thermal. 1,5 A, 230 V.

Maximum consumption over 200-345W/h. Considering 24 hours of use.

*** 12 W each unit.

To cover estimated year costs, monthly quote should be increased to 35€/month.

5.3 Legislation and contractual specifications When building a shipping container construction, directives from Código Técnico

de la Edificación (C.T.E.) - https://www.codigotecnico.org/ - must be followed.

For this project, normalized shipping container with no habitability space and

founding’s could be considered a temporally cultural space, which could be

legally placed in any city if the shipping container is not highly modified,

preserving the shipping container appearance.

https://www.codigotecnico.org/

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5.4 Environmental analysis Preserving environment should be one of human priorities. For that, projects

should have an environmental analysis to know, at least in a generic way, how

harmful the project could be.

This project search sustainable development and low ecological footprint,

by buying near where the project will be placed. Due to the difficulties to find

real emission data from components used in this shipping container, as wood,

windows, AC among others, this analysis will be generic.

1. Material obtaining

Considering all this components, shipping container is being reused from

the nearest container shipping terminal port, train terminals or depots. Any

big city, as Barcelona, Madrid or others, shipping containers can be

transported by roads from over 140€/Km, generating directly 2,61 kg

CO2/l diesel. Shipping container emissions can be omitted due to second

hand market.

Using local resources could decrease project emissions. All materials

should be second hand when is possible. If first hand materials are

needed, CO2 emissions should be known before buying.

2. Manufacture

Only the back wall from the container is removed, undamaging the

structure. This process could be done with no heavy tools.

Wood works are, practically, all restauration process, generating really low

quantity of waste. This rooms could be manufactured in an industry and

later, being installed in a public space.

3. Transport

Moving this container once is placed somewhere could cost and emit the

same as on pont 1 – Material obtaining.

4. Use life

Monthly, shipping container could waste over 200KW monthly. Co2 use

emissions could be neutralized thanks to the green roof.

Once the utility life form the product has finished, shipping container structure

could be reused for other purpose due to his low alterations. Wood panels, wood

frames, isolation materials and others could be reused for other projects.

Windows and doors could be reused too, same as AC and electric components,

being a low impact when demolition.

All emissions could be reduced by using renewable energies, materials with low

emission index and eco-friendly or using local materials to avoid transport

emissions.

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6 Product result 6.1 Internal room

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6.2 Artist support

In this last image reader can see a work called “Som Mar” from Badalona artists

Mertin15, who gave his image for this project proposal.

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6.3 Green roof and AC

6.4 Designed bench for storage

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6.5 External single appearance

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6.6 Multiple configuration examples

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6.7 Logo

Logo could be placed with a wood panel or welded on the shipping container.

The first idea shows how can be lighted at night.

6.8 App With the mobile app, users can reserve a room for the hours needed. Real time

information provides real time availability.

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6.9 Conceptual poster

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7 Conclusions This project has shown how powerful the shipping-container-architecture is. With

a low budget, people around the world has taken this idea to solve living problems

or propose a greener alternative when building a space. This project did take this

example.

Even this project did not know fully any need from music community, the study

did end with a proper idea after a serious empathy process, finding some needs

a building could solve.

Satisfactorily, all objectives from this study have been fulfil by presenting a cheap

and transportable concept which combines technology to offer flexibility.

The designed rooms are correctly isolated, air-conditioned and lighted, fulfilling

all standards from international directives, which could facilitate the

commercialization from this project and guarantees the transport.

The main structure from the shipping container has not been modified fully, being

able to conserve almost all strength the ISO 668 specifies.

Surveys have demonstrated this project is viable thanks to its empathy study and

design process, being enough cheap to be considered by any city in their culture

budget, even by offering this tool completely free by integrating this concept into

the public library infrastructure.

Expanding this idea to an industrialized process could decrease project costs,

being more economical, creating a portable idea that could be cheaper than

creating a new space with similar characteristics.

Environmentally, this project could solve real waste needs by reusing materials.

When dismantle any room, structure and internal materials and components

could be reused.

Project budget did not consider buying drums or piano, instruments that should

be considered when installing multiple rooms, same as music production kits and

elements.

7.1 Continuity For further study and design continuation, I highly suggest to offer this service

cheaper, trying to find more support in local cities budgets.

Real and detailed environmental impact study should be done before any part

of this project is being done.

This project tries to be a tool for society, covering an educational need which

could help to develop people’s brain by music intelligence. Because of that,

society must always decide how, when and where this shipping containers

should be placed, as deciding how many rooms they want to install.

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7.2 Personal valuation When I started this project I did not know where it could end. After some month

thinking where I should end, I found a real problem, offering a real solution.

This study helped myself to see if I am able to create a product after an empathy

exercise.

Music seems to be undervalued in our society even Scientifics have

demonstrated it is part of our brain, as any culture project that fulfil our brain and

hearths. Our children are not developing themselves in an expired educational

system which treats any kind of art as a second-rate subject, feeding academic

failure that covers almost 30% of all children in Spain.

But our brain does not change. Multiple intelligence theory is a fact and our

educational system is turning back for all students who want to develop

themselves in that way.

As a result, cultural experience is being simplified in little ideas. In music,

commercial genres and reggeton are the most listened ones, forgetting about our

music legacy.

Society should see this problem which is making our future generations

submissive, forgetting one phrase I really consider as true:

“Criteria is acquired by seeing many different things”

Promoting culture could mean a more intelligent and happy society which could

create a social tissue and help to evade problems as materialism, drug addictions

or frustration. Our children should be human first, with human interactions.

I am happy where this project did end even I have had enormous difficulties. Due

to coronavirus medical alert, I experienced anxiety, wich I combined with my daily

work at office and family problems. Unfortunately, this project hasn’t been

followed as I would like even thought, I appreciate the possibility of learning in

this area.

As a product designer, covering real necessities in our world is one of my work

priorities and in my personal criteria, I really consider the final product as a really

good idea. Maybe, the following years we will see some of this box laying in the

street.

I am grateful for all those people who helped in this project, supporting this idea

and making it become true.

Also, I want to give thanks to the reader.

Ending this project, I start a new chapter of my life…

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8.2 Lighting Datasheet

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8.3 Shipping container drawings

8.4 Storage bench drawings

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9 Bibliography and resources 9.1 Regulations

DIN 5034-1:2011-07 - Daylight in interiors

https://www.beuth.de/en/standard/din-5034-1/141642928

UNE-EN 12464-1:2012 - Light and lighting - Lighting of work places - Part 1:

Indoor work places

https://www.une.org/encuentra-tu-norma/busca-tu-norma/norma?c=N0048898

UNE-EN ISO 7730:2006 – Ergonomics of the thermal environment - Analytical

determination and interpretation of thermal comfort using calculation of the PMV

and PPD indices and local thermal comfort criteria (ISO 7730:2005)


UNE-EN 60598-1:2015 - Luminaires - Part 1: General requirements and tests

https://www.une.org/encuentra-tu-norma/busca-tu-norma/norma/?c=N0055203

UNE-EN ISO 7730:2006 - Ergonomics of the thermal environment - Analytical

determination and interpretation of thermal comfort using calculation of the PMV

and PPD indices and local thermal comfort criteria (ISO 7730:2005)


Normas UNE que dan presunción de conformidad con el Reglamento

Electrotécnico de Baja Tensión

http://www.f2i2.net/legislacionseguridadindustrial/rebt_normas.aspx

The Low Voltage Directive (LVD)

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Method for converting one or more steel shipping containers into a habitable

building at a building site and the product thereof – Google Patents


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Pascual Juvé, Aida. [Consulta: 10/02/2020]

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