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Originally Posted by Plankton (Post 2070968)

lol

I mean just for the conversation.

Hey, that's a spectacular building, plankton! I like the bit at the top, with the little temples and the dragon's front legs, but it is also, as OH says, "a big gaudy piece of ****". To me it's like some Epcot Center Buddha-meets-Disney exhibit.

On the same theme, but not as dramatic, is this working Helter Skelter ride temporarily erected in Norwich Cathedral. I'm squinting at the photo, wondering if JC has been booted off the altar in favour of effigies of Paul McCartney and Charlie Manson.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/...eg?imwidth=450

Shock! Horror! and Outrage! from England as people are forced to actually use one of Plankton's buildings :laughing:

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Shipping containers used to house homeless children
By Hannah Richardson
BBC News education and social affairs reporter

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cp...5_shipping.jpg
Caption: 'Life in container is mental torture'
More than 210,000 children are estimated to be homeless, with some being temporarily housed in converted shipping containers, a report says.

The Children's Commissioner for England says that as well as the 124,000 children officially homeless, a further 90,000 are estimated to be "sofa-surfing".

Her report tells of families housed in repurposed shipping containers and office blocks, and whole families living in tiny spaces.

Councils blamed a £159m funding gap.

A spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said anyone who feels they have been placed in unsuitable accommodation should request a review.

The report, entitled Bleak Houses, found the use of shipping containers as temporary accommodation was leading to cramped conditions and inhospitable temperatures.

In Amsterdam shipping containers are used to house college students, and it's not considered abnormal. I've been in one of those places, it seemed fine

Those things are engineered to be air and water tight for shipping. They have small vents to let excessive heat build up escape but they need more air flow for humans to be able to live in them, and in most residential/housing configurations, HVAC needs to be considered. Reflective colors help a little too, so we try to keep that in mind, but sometimes the customer just has to have black or dark blue, which can be deadly in certain extreme heat situations without proper venting/cooling. They weren't engineered for humans to live in them as-built, so we use them as a base structure to mold into something inhabitable.

If they're just throwing people in connex's with no modifications, then yeah, that's quite inhumane. That picture is very misleading in that scenario.

^ That's interesting. I can imagine that there are probs trying to keep them warm in winter or cool in summer, but I like the idea of stacking simple boxes together. Did you know that Plankton designs similar container buildings for a living?

EDIT: OOPs! @ Marie

I'm designing a plane to burn up atm.

Yeah? Just burn up I presume because a flying container might have a couple of aerodynamic probs that would need to be tweaked.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2073692)

I can imagine that there are probs trying to keep them warm in winter or cool in summer

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the case

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2073692)

Did you know that Plankton designs similar container buildings for a living?

I did not, that's really cool. As an enginieer or architect or something?

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2073699)

Yeah? Just burn up I presume because a flying container might have a couple of aerodynamic probs that would need to be tweaked.

lol yeah

Plane on a tarmac simulation. Like this:

https://prosafefire.com/wp-content/u...18/05/01_1.jpg

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Originally Posted by MarieMarie (Post 2073703)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the case

I did not, that's really cool. As an enginieer or architect or something?

Non-degree'ed structural engineer. I do all the drawings and put everything together in a pretty picture, then an actual PSE stamps them for about 10x what I get.