auburn univ / rural studio : katrina response 2The purpose of the project is to provide FEMA with research, precedent and feasibility studies as well masterplans, models, and schematic designs to establish an array of 'container housing' communities of 100 to 10,000 inhabitants. im looking for follow up information on this project. knowing fema... (!!!)
follow up (google searched auburn and shipping container) this is indeed an auburn arch dept project and lacks (unfortunately) any special or funky design features usually associated with rural studio.
back story - goods delivered.
ok it aint pretty, BUT! this was completed for the cost of the container and $2,500.00 worth of modifications. lets do the math. (approximately) :
container : $1,700.00
delivery : $500.00 (two trips)
mods: $2,500.00
total: $4,700.00
40' x 8' = 320 sf
total cost $4700 divided by 320sf = $14.69 per square foot
"and its bigger than a fema trailer"
would still be interested in hearing femas reaction.
now if we could get some design help down to auburn. it cant be that hard to design/make 'er purdy.
Altogether, FEMA is paying up to $7 billion for 153,000 trailers, or about $46,000 per trailer. About 132,000 are now occupied by storm victims. Under law, FEMA provides housing aid for up to 18 months, meaning that the trailers will have cost about $2,500 a month.
even if the fema trailers were the same size (320 sf) as the container home (which they are not), uncle sam is paying $143.75 per sf based on a unit cost of 46k per trailer. thats a cost disparity factor of almost ten to one. we are all getting hosed on this one. you know, add a zero to that number it could come in at.
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- bill 8-24-2006 5:13 pm
follow up (google searched auburn and shipping container) this is indeed an auburn arch dept project and lacks (unfortunately) any special or funky design features usually associated with rural studio.
back story - goods delivered.
ok it aint pretty, BUT! this was completed for the cost of the container and $2,500.00 worth of modifications. lets do the math. (approximately) :
container : $1,700.00
delivery : $500.00 (two trips)
mods: $2,500.00
total: $4,700.00
40' x 8' = 320 sf
total cost $4700 divided by 320sf = $14.69 per square foot
"and its bigger than a fema trailer"
would still be interested in hearing femas reaction. now if we could get some design help down to auburn. it cant be that hard to design/make 'er purdy.
- bill 8-24-2006 5:47 pm [add a comment]
even if the fema trailers were the same size (320 sf) as the container home (which they are not), uncle sam is paying $143.75 per sf based on a unit cost of 46k per trailer. thats a cost disparity factor of almost ten to one. we are all getting hosed on this one. you know, add a zero to that number it could come in at.- bill 8-24-2006 7:15 pm [add a comment]