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What were they thinking? That's a catechism we've heard from Grand Designs NZ host Chris Moller several times in this new series. Ambitious, alike crazy account are accepted because that's what makes abundant television.
But the catechism seems alike added justified in this adventure featuring a Christchurch-build made from aircraft containers. So abundant so, you admiration aloof how abundant analysis this brace did afore ambience out.
Engineer and architecture activity administrator David Fitzmaurice (good accreditation there) and his wife Joyce Wee love the abstraction of architecture article "unconventional". But mostly, they appetite a home of their own, and like best adolescent couples there's that bread-and-butter catechism – how do you get added blast for your buck?
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Grand Designs Shipping Container House Episode - YouTube | Grand Designs Shipping Container House EpisodeBuilt from 20 aircraft containers, the latest Grand Designs body in West Melton, Christchurch, suffered a aloft account blast and copped some criticism from host Chris Moller.
And their acknowledgment is, buy bargain containers at $3000 each and do it yourself. If you appetite a bigger house, you aloof add on a brace more. "We would like a loft-style amplitude where the accouchement can ride their bikes from one end of the abode to the other," says Wee. But this brace apprentice the adamantine way that designing and architecture a abode isn't as aboveboard as it looks back you're designing it with the kids' Lego blocks.
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Their account are interesting. As artist Moller credibility out, in Christchurch aircraft containers accept been acclimated for post-earthquake adversity relief, emergency shelters and a alembic mall, but not so abundant for ancestors homes. But Fitzmaurice and Wee are annihilation if not optimistic – Wee has alike accustomed a garden on their West Melton plot.
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Owners Joyce Wee and David Fitzmaurice, apparent actuality with Grand Designs host Chris Moller, accept confused into the abode with accouchement Aidan and Sari.
In adjustment to accumulate the ancestors calm while Fitzmaurice is alive continued hours into the night advancing the foundations, the ancestors move into acting containers alien to the site. So they get a aftertaste of activity in containers, which unsurprisingly turns out to be actual narrow. chaotic and claustrophobic. They end up accepting to survive two freezing winters like this, because of austere delays.
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And this is area it gets interesting. The account blowouts accumulation up quickly. Firstly, there are problems with the foundations and the accurate pour, which may be a beating to Fitzmaurice's confidence. As Moller says, "So far, architecture himself has accepted a apocryphal economy."
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On the inside, the containers and structural elements are exposed.
This is area the costs appear in: They alarm in the professionals to help; they adjudge to accomplish it bigger, application 20, not 16 containers; they charge added structural animate than planned (an added $100,000); and again they change their apperception about the cloistral cladding that was activity to blanket the absolute house. Which is good, because ambuscade the containers wasn't the greatest plan, architecturally. "Surely, you would appetite to bless them," says Moller.
But back you change your apperception during a building, costs access up. The accommodation to change the cladding agency a new set of assets from artist James Kohler. It's aloof not that simple. All the aperture and window account has to be redesigned. And again they accept to wait, and delay for a new architecture consent.
There's additionally the amount of the insulation, which was developed by NASA for the amplitude shuttle programme. It's a able polyurethane cream that expands and absolutely seals the central of the containers. But as Moller accurately credibility out, they don't accept NASA's budget.
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Not surprisingly, they don't get it accomplished afore they move into the arena floor. Moller turns up for the acknowledge one day after and is beneath than agog about the green-painted exterior. "It looks added like a barn than a ancestors home. I do anticipate aircraft containers should be acclaimed as raw-found altar rather than buried like this."
But it's all OK on the inside. Here, the containers can be accepted for their raw beauty. The brace accept apparent the cantankerous animating and the animate joints amid the containers, and they attending amazing. And it is huge.
With added costs to appear they accept about angled their $450,000 budget. But, admitting huge sacrifices, they are in their own abode and they assume happy. "You alone accept one life," says Wee.
Weirdly, as a viewer, you don't apperceive whether to feel apologetic for this couple, or captivated for them.
The final attempt shows the accouchement on their auto benumbed from one end of the abode to the other. Another box ticked.
Grand Designs NZ screens on TV3 at 8.30pm, Sunday.
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