Standard-Rooms.com
3107-013 Pai, TH
A Standard Room is (internally 6 metres long, 4 metres wide and 2.4metres high. This is a comfortable size for living in – about 3 times the volume of a “large” imperial shipping container, but too large to move by road. They are used (and easily moved about) in a new sort of “city” design called www.New-Sydney.com or www.New-City.Net where they can be moved around in, This is a “multi storey car park” like structure (but a lot less “squeezy and low”) and rooms, neighbourhoods can be moved around to suit the changing needs of the dweller therein or the user for other purposes. Imperial shipping containers are far too cramped and “wrong shaped” for living in. that is not “imperial shipping containers” purpose. However, Standard-Rooms can also be moved (or even dwelt in) on a container ship with suitable adaptors.
Although “closable” like a shipping container for moving,, apart from the four corners, floor and roof frame, and amenity connectors, various designs and “drop sides” options are to individual taste and budgets. Only the “PERHAPS vertically stackable” frame and amenity connection is standard – though generally both ends (4m x 2.4m) can be hinged out to make “verandahs” front and rear. A standard toilet/shower room is usual, either in a back corner, or able to swing out onto the rear “verandah”.
Connections in for electricity, water (grades and temperatures) fresh air (ditto) and mail inputs.. and outputs for toilet, grey water, stale air and garbage are all to a standard, such that a move of the standard room to a new location is an unplug-move-plug in process. Broadband Comms connections allow large screen displays now of increasing clarity and reduced cost to view out, not just of the neighbourhood, but of any other “neighborhood” such as the grand canyon, the top of the eiffel tower, antarctica, below the great barrier reef or through orbital cameras. Room Connection to supercooled air or nitrogen can provide refrigeration without motor noise.
Alone, within the matrix of a New-City.Net this is a “long term” spacious dwelling or hotel room – but if you want a change of view, or different neighbours, it is easy to move, without needing to pack everything up. Normally, to live within these “new cities” every individual brings (or rents) his own room. Rooms may be parked or joined as required for living, restaurant, Pub, Office or workshop applications. Even “Gardens” may be constructed of such frameworks. The city matrix usually has about 5 metre height per level, and may be “open” at the city edges – or enclosed, deeper within the structure.
Although Standard-Rooms are designed for these “New-Sydney” type structures, they can be craned onto a barge or floats or a piece of land. The connections will need to be provided to one or many so deployed. So also for “top loading” onto a container ship for an international “cruising village” if permitted by the captain and safety regulations. Sometimes we may ship our Standard-Room to a different “new-city” or a smaller “new-town” or “new-hamlet” - but it's not really a tourist caravan. Your Standard-Room can be moved to a cheaper “empty storage area” and your “permanent spot” returned to later … whilst meanwhile a public “park” or an hotel room can be “wheeled in” … same if you want to paint or modify or renovate your home – move it to a working-on-rooms area to not annoy the neighbours with the sounds and smells of such actions...
Actual connection types and frame specifications and mounting are precise. About 120 square metres of stainless steel (mostly 1mm thick for several layers) means a weight of about 4 tonnes. Material cost is $12,000 – $16,000 and it is all assembly line produced, mostly automated. It should cost less than $20,000 and have a life expectancy of 100 years, with little servicing needs. The (cavity) wall thickness is a little under 250mm such that exterior size fits within 6500 x x 4500 x 2900
this cavity can contain thermal and sound insulation and water storage. This can add desired weight and muffling, fire resistance and temperature stabilisation, if needed. From “the basic box” many hinge-able panels can be deployed if required. Typically only the front and rear ends do this, but sides (and top) could also be articulated, if sealed, the room will float. It can also be slightly pressurised, perhaps at 10KPa (1.5 PSI) … many architectual modifications are possible, so long as it can fold back up to specs for moving.
….it is the Parking structure of New-Sydney that brings convenience, luxury and versatility to their use.
New-Sydney class habitats are FLOATING cities – not “a ship” in the classic sense, but capable and durable in larger sizes of “parking” off shore or even far away from land. The construction is very strong and all of STANDARD mass produced parts that can be bolted or unbolted and used again in accordance with Triple-use standards – it is largely unaffected by big seas or even tsunami, and useful energy can be obtained from wave power in the offshore-mode. It does not have the speed of a conventional ship, but with its much wider berth and “open-at-sea-level construction large waves or tsunami can pass over the floatation layer, well below the habitat layers. Its Pyramidical form and pressurised steel construction is immensely strong, and has few “long drops” - Unlike New York City, as it is basically a terrace on all 6 sides leading to a top ridge which could be a full size aircraft runway on a big enough “City”
Like most cities, this “metropolis” is likely to grow, but does not take up valuable farming, forestry and wild life areas, and is highly resistant to storms, Tsunami and flooding for places such as low-lying (Kiribati?) islands, endangered by global overuse of fossil fuels and tsunami. It is in fact a floating Island, rather than a ship. Particularly in its larger sizes.