Team:Dwellings
Activities: Research, design and document everything concerning where people live or sleep
This is the Wiki page for The RBE10K Project's Dwellings Team.
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Objectives
Document a variety of structures where people can sleep or live in. Must conform to the budget allocated, of $1500 maximum per person, including infrastructure, furniture and all features including recycling of waste, with the sole exception of energy and maybe water.
Two-story Earthships with Capsule Hotels
This proposal is defined by 5 Earthship two-story buildings supporting 2000 people each, at a cost of $3m each, where $1.5m is destined to the building infrastructure and the rest distributed between 2000 capsule hotels, with a budget of $750 each.
Each Earthship would have 10-13 sections, each of 8m wide, 20-30m deep, and 4m tall, and an upper story built on top of the Earthship used as lounge, with a kitchen and eatery, toilets, showers, and possibly other conveniences.
Each section would have three rows of capsule hotels on each side of the section, of 2.5m long, and 1.3m wide and tall, allowing for 75-90 capsules on each side, totalling on 150-180 capsules per section, requiring 11-13 sections per building.
Capsule Hotel Quote Requests
www.Rencol.com
Hi, my name is [...], and I'm one of the coordinators of an international project for setting-up a sustainable community in 2015. We're evaluating more comfortable and private solutions than bunk beds for our communal sleeping spaces, and we're considering something similar to Capsule Hotels. The following description is hopefully detailed enough to give a clear idea of what we need, however we only need a very rough estimate, ideally a price range between a very bare bones cheap material to a well finished sturdy product, so we can better determine what our budget can handle. The community will have 10,000 people, so we'll need at last as many boxes in the end. We will only be in a position to purchase by the second half of 2014, so we're not in a hurry for the quotation, but it will certainly help with the organisation and the paperwork for the purchases. We're likely to require may other things like outdoors furniture and custom fittings. Hopefully we'll establish a relationship and do good business by the end of next year when we proceed with all the purchases.
Capsule hotels are sturdy boxes of plastic, fiberglass or similar material, and may be reinforced with metal bars for strength. The measurements we'd require are 2.5m x 1.3m x 1.3m, and can be fully open at one of the small ends (to face against the wall), and rounded and slightly narrowed opposite end (which is the front). We must be capable of piling up to 3 of them. Only the front would be visible, so the outside material doesn't need to be neat. The thickness between the outside and the inside should not exceed 5cm on any wall, except for one of the internal sides, which should be 20cm thick and have a few moulded depressions to simulate a table and shelves on the far end half, and shelves only on the front end half. The inside will hold an Australian king single mattress (1.06m x 2.03m) and a slightly springy rack underneath, which would ideally be part of the structure itself.
External links
- Capsule hotels
- http://www.yesicanusechopsticks.com/capsule/
- http://www.yesicanusechopsticks.com/thesequel/capsule/
- http://japan-articles.japanican.com/en/articles/shinjuku_kuyakoshomae_capsule_hotel.html
- http://www.kotobuki-seat.com/company/history/ (Kotobuki invented and first developed the capsule hotels)
- Sleepbox
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