Source: StarbucksStarbucks is about to unveil a new store in suburban Seattle built primarily of four used shipping containers — the large steel boxes used to store goods as they are transported long distances on boats and trucks.
Containers have become a hot commodity in the green building movement because so many of them are piling up at American ports and are in need of recycling, says Peter DeMaria, the principal in a design firm that does a lot of work with them. “Due to the trade imbalance with China, millions of containers are left in our ports every year,” he said.
And it just so happens the containers are perfect modular building blocks for construction.
“We like the idea of up-cycling, that is, using a material and deploying it in nearly its original state,” Mr. DeMaria said. Adapting a container takes 5 percent of the energy needed to take steel, melt it down and create a new beam, he added.
Mr. DeMaria was an early adopter of container construction in the United States, first building a container-based house in Redondo Beach, Calif., in 2005. Since then he has built a gallery and condo building in the Venice area of Los Angeles, among other projects. He has worked with Target on a sample home for a design show.
The Starbucks container story is a prototype, according to a company spokesman, Alan Hilowitz, which means it may lead to more container stores.
He said this store would be rare among the 17,000 Starbucks stores globally in that it will be drive-up and walk-up only with no space to lounge inside.
And it will be portable, he said, easy to break it down and transport somewhere else. “We see a lot of opportunities here,” he said. “We can put a store like this on a lot that will be developed someday but is free for two or three years, and then we can move it.”
The company, he said, was also motivated by the idea of not letting the containers it uses for importing tea and coffee just sit and go to waste.
Source:
The New York Times
Containers have become a hot commodity in the green building movement because so many of them are piling up at American ports and are in need of recycling, says Peter DeMaria, the principal in a design firm that does a lot of work with them. “Due to the trade imbalance with China, millions of containers are left in our ports every year,” he said.
And it just so happens the containers are perfect modular building blocks for construction.
“We like the idea of up-cycling, that is, using a material and deploying it in nearly its original state,” Mr. DeMaria said. Adapting a container takes 5 percent of the energy needed to take steel, melt it down and create a new beam, he added.
Mr. DeMaria was an early adopter of container construction in the United States, first building a container-based house in Redondo Beach, Calif., in 2005. Since then he has built a gallery and condo building in the Venice area of Los Angeles, among other projects. He has worked with Target on a sample home for a design show.
The Starbucks container story is a prototype, according to a company spokesman, Alan Hilowitz, which means it may lead to more container stores.
He said this store would be rare among the 17,000 Starbucks stores globally in that it will be drive-up and walk-up only with no space to lounge inside.
And it will be portable, he said, easy to break it down and transport somewhere else. “We see a lot of opportunities here,” he said. “We can put a store like this on a lot that will be developed someday but is free for two or three years, and then we can move it.”
The company, he said, was also motivated by the idea of not letting the containers it uses for importing tea and coffee just sit and go to waste.
Source:
The New York Times
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