Site Shack: This Tiny Prefab Cabin is a Cinch to Set Up
When you?re the site manager for a construction company, a portable office is a must. You have to be able to move your workplace from site to site, and it has to be durable enough to withstand all that motion along with potentially hazardous site conditions. Ideally, this office is also self-contained and requires very little assembly or disassembly.
Converted shipping containers have become a popular choice for all of these reasons, but they still aren?t ideal, partially owing to the fact that they require extensive modification to be made comfortable for both hot and cold environments.
Even better than shipping containers are not just prefabricated but ?pre-made? workspaces that ship fully assembled. These plug-and-play structures can be set down virtually anywhere by crane, and then it?s just a matter of filling them with the features and furniture your particular needs require.
When Powers Construction of Vancouver, Canada needed to upgrade their own portable offices for their site managers, they decided to come up with their own design. The result is the ?Site Shack,? a tiny 8 x 12-foot pre-made cabin that?s as cute as it is rugged.
“For this office, we wanted to design and build an iteration from scratch, thus removing the structural constraints of the shipping container module,” the firm explains. “The goal was to create a seamless Corten steel form reminiscent of a traditional pitched roof house. The roof pitch was calculated so...
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