Any insights on quonset huts

[GLyford]

Have you seen the barns made with containers, set apart, with trusses over them? Stack them two 40's long, two high...getting the 80 wide could be interesting, but a few rows of structural pallet racking could serve as both storage and load bearing walls down the middle (assuming you aren't repairing combine heads or something). Or go for a more reasonable truss span and bump it up to three containers long. If you did go 80 wide, the ends could be another double stack with a 12' door on either side, or a couple stacks of 20's spaced however.

If you did go for racking down the center, you could use that to support the ridge, and maybe use bar trusses as rafters on each side, as sort of a cathedral ceiling space.

That number of containers probably wouldn't be cheaper than just having a pole building built, but the idea still tickles my scrounger's heart...

 

[GLyford]

Two rows of racking down the middle, with conventional trusses, then bar trusses on either side for a monitor style...

The problem you would shortly run into of course is that unless you started chopping up the containers, your space would be chopped up instead. But if you're one of these guys that wants separate rooms for electronics, space for woodworking, a paint booth, stock storage, den/"cave", etc.

And to make good use of the racking, you'd pretty much be committed to having and maintaining a forklift, and leaving space open on at least one side to use it.

I think this is one of those ideas that works if the materials kind of falls into your lap, but I never seem to be one of those guys that can make that happen...I have to work at it, and I never quite seem to come out ahead whichever way I go.

 

[woodlandfarms]

I have been in this exhibit. It blew my mind..

New York Architecture Images- Chelsea- The Nomadic Museum

I would love to see this one, just an amazing look. just plans but what an idea.

Environmental Center Made Out Of 65 Shipping Containers / APHIDoIDEA - eVolo | Architecture Magazine

But you are right, we have looked into container built shop and the price for containers exceeds just a regular steel building.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

The few Quonset owners I know around here, all of them told me they leaked after they got old...through the bolts.

I wouldn't make any bets that the galvanize on todays steel is better than the OLD galvanize! From what I see here on old steel barn roofs, the new stuff won't begin to match the old stuff!

SR

 

[davrow]

When I google butterfly roofs most are really 'V's. The wastewater treatment plant near us did a (very expensive) renovation and added large buildings with graceful butterfly roofs. These pics were gleaned from the 'net, I've never taken any pics of it, but could if you want better views.

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