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THE BOX OFFICE (35 SHIPPING CONTAINERS)
ARCH
Distill Studio
ENG
Structures Workshop, Inc.
DEVELOPER
Truth Box, Inc.
BUILDER
Stack Build LLC
LOC
Providence, RI
YR
2009-2010
DESCRIPTION
The Box Office is a new 3-story office building consisting of
35 reused shipping containers under construction in
Providence. The office spaces contain dramatic 14 foot
cantilevers and container bridges are formed to create
passageways between office units.
The two renderings shown are with rights from Tim Nelson
courtesy of Truth Box. The left image is of our Revit / BIM
model used for documentation and on the right is our Finite
Element Analysis ETABS model. We created a robust Revit
Container family for used section/detail creation.
For more information see the following news links...
Inhabitat “Box Office Shipping Container Office"
Projo "New building should work inside the box"
SHIPPING CONTAINER ENGINEERING
A solid container is pretty simple from a structural
standpoint once you understand that the container need it's
own walls to span the full 40 feet – much like a wide flange
beam needs it's web. It acts as a deep beam which is as
deep as the height of the container. If the walls are fully or
partially removed, the container becomes much more
complicated. It can lose almost all of its stiffness and
shear capacity. You need to introduce reinforcing
(horizontal or columns) because the small base channel
cannot span very far in flexure.
You can accommodate small window openings but
determining size for unreinforced or minimally reinforced
openings requires sophisticated analysis using anisotropic
shell modeling or other simplifying assumptions (due to
the walls having different properties in different directions -
in the horizontal direction, the web is as flexible as an
accordion - but in the vertical and shear orientation it is very
stiff).
There is additional complexity in determining how to
economically reinforce modified containers. That is, how to
minimize field welding and simplify the connections to
adjoining containers and foundations becomes important.
To keep costs down, you want to "let the container be a
container". Unfortunately that is often at odds with flexible
space and leasing requirements of offices being a
minimum of two containers wide. So some walls need to
go.
The container can be joined the same way they are stacked
on a container ship, using steel assemblies that have
manual levers to lock the containers together at each of the
four corner castings
ARCH
Distill Studio
ENG
Structures Workshop, Inc.
DEVELOPER
Truth Box, Inc.
BUILDER
Stack Build LLC
LOC
Providence, RI
YR
2009-2010
DESCRIPTION
The Box Office is a new 3-story office building consisting of
35 reused shipping containers under construction in
Providence. The office spaces contain dramatic 14 foot
cantilevers and container bridges are formed to create
passageways between office units.
The two renderings shown are with rights from Tim Nelson
courtesy of Truth Box. The left image is of our Revit / BIM
model used for documentation and on the right is our Finite
Element Analysis ETABS model. We created a robust Revit
Container family for used section/detail creation.
For more information see the following news links...
Inhabitat “Box Office Shipping Container Office"
Projo "New building should work inside the box"
SHIPPING CONTAINER ENGINEERING
A solid container is pretty simple from a structural
standpoint once you understand that the container need it's
own walls to span the full 40 feet – much like a wide flange
beam needs it's web. It acts as a deep beam which is as
deep as the height of the container. If the walls are fully or
partially removed, the container becomes much more
complicated. It can lose almost all of its stiffness and
shear capacity. You need to introduce reinforcing
(horizontal or columns) because the small base channel
cannot span very far in flexure.
You can accommodate small window openings but
determining size for unreinforced or minimally reinforced
openings requires sophisticated analysis using anisotropic
shell modeling or other simplifying assumptions (due to
the walls having different properties in different directions -
in the horizontal direction, the web is as flexible as an
accordion - but in the vertical and shear orientation it is very
stiff).
There is additional complexity in determining how to
economically reinforce modified containers. That is, how to
minimize field welding and simplify the connections to
adjoining containers and foundations becomes important.
To keep costs down, you want to "let the container be a
container". Unfortunately that is often at odds with flexible
space and leasing requirements of offices being a
minimum of two containers wide. So some walls need to
go.
The container can be joined the same way they are stacked
on a container ship, using steel assemblies that have
manual levers to lock the containers together at each of the
four corner castings
Structures Workshop, Inc. is a full-service structural engineering firm licensed in RI, MA, NH, CT, NY, WI and ME and located in Providence, RI.
Structures Workshop, Inc.
One Richmond Square Suite 147N
Providence, RI 02906
401.383.8988 (ph)
401.351.8788 (fax)
info@structuresworkshop.com
One Richmond Square Suite 147N
Providence, RI 02906
401.383.8988 (ph)
401.351.8788 (fax)
info@structuresworkshop.com