In the world of green architecture and affordable housing, shipping container homes are often considered to be practical, cost-effective and even environmentally-friendly. In Dubai, however, the prospect seems a bit dubious. Gulf News reported today on a contracting firm in Dubai that has built housing for workers out of shipping containers, which can become unbearably hot in desert environments if they aren’t properly insulated. On the other hand, the containers probably didn’t cost that much, can be easily relocated to the next job, they can withstand sand storms, and the contracting firm says that the containers have sufficient insulation against the scorching desert sun.
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This is almost a brilliant idea. Providing shade is probably the best passive strategy in the desert climate. Integrating something like a military type shade structure over the shipping container dwelling units could significantly improve the micro-climate and reduce energy demand on the window AC units.
Having lived in a shipping container in Iraq for two years, I can tell you that it is not exactly an amazing experience. Not bad, but not great, either.
As long as the air conditioning works, they are pretty comfortable.
Workspaces in many remote areas are made from portable units that might as well be shipping containers. There are companies that build these modular units that can be stacked, and have stair wells going between units.
Just sayin….
[...] system has dimensions of 2.44 m x 3.10 m x 12.20 — roughly the size of a standard 40′ shipping container. The bedroom sits at one end, the bathroom is in the middle, and the kitchen and living areas are [...]
The migrant workers of Dubai have their passports taken, work in extreme heat for low-pay.Women and girls are used as domestic servants are kept in isolation and are fed very little.Some of them are sexually abused.All this to provide a Neverland of obscene taste…
As JeanX implies, this is a difficult topic. And if Gulf News, which was my daily read during six years in the UAE, insinuates that this represents \\\’mistreatment\\\’ then their report must be taken in the context of the truly abysmal situation which prevailed prior to recent improvements.
Nothing in the Sandlands is as straightforward as it seems. And it is indeed an irony that some of the essentially praiseworthy real-estate developments… sustainable and impeccably \\\’green\\\’… are being built by a labour force which toils in conditions which are for most of us unimaginable.
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