Container-Provisorium

English translation: Temporary container housing

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German term or phrase:Container-Provisorium
English translation:Temporary container housing
Entered by: franglish

07:26 Mar 17, 2017
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Tech/Engineering - Architecture
German term or phrase: Container-Provisorium
Abenteuer in die Horizontale

Eigentlich sollte es nur ein Container-Provisorium werden. Manch- mal aber schafft Widerspruch die Basis für ein wirklich überzeugendes Werk. Auch aus ökonomischer Sicht.

Vielen Dank!
martina1974
Austria
Local time: 12:51
Temporary container housing
Explanation:
I suppose they are shipping containers.
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franglish
Switzerland
Local time: 12:51
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is most suitable
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3Temporary container housing
franglish
3temporary container facility / stopgap container solution
Wendy Streitparth
3The containers were only meant to be a temporary solution
phillee
1provisional container
Jacek Kloskowski
Summary of reference entries provided
container housings
Johannes Gleim

Discussion entries: 3





  

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Temporary container housing


Explanation:
I suppose they are shipping containers.

franglish
Switzerland
Local time: 12:51
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 14
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is most suitable

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Armorel Young: but are they housing - do we know that they are for people to live in?
1 hr
  -> Now we are sure. See Martina's discussion entry. And thanks, Armorel. Your questioning at that point was justified though for me the inference was clear.

agree  Johannes Gleim: see reference comment
8 hrs
  -> Thank you, Johannes. Containers have now become longterm solutions such as for student housing here in Switzerland.

agree  Inter-Tra: also 'container homes', many books have already been published about this kind of architecture
1 day 49 mins
  -> Thank you, fbbest. Indeed, they may well be entering mainstream architecture due to an ever growing need for housing and its low cost.

agree  Michael Bailey
4 days
  -> Danke, Michael.
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provisional container


Explanation:
In theCzech Republic, the 1997 floods in Ostrava forceddozens of Romani families to move out of their residences into provisional container houses, only to face the rejection of the municipalitiesto settle back into any part of the city after thefloods were over.

https://www.academia.edu/3371063/Housing_health_and_living_c...

The center was moved from its original home in a provisional container to its present location in a new building on Stefan-Meier-Straße in 1994, where all of the participating disciplines are now assembled under one roof.

http://cordis.europa.eu/news/rcn/120291_en.html

Jacek Kloskowski
United States
Local time: 06:51
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Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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temporary container facility / stopgap container solution


Explanation:
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Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 12:51
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The containers were only meant to be a temporary solution


Explanation:
Sometimes the sentence has to be reworked to sound good

Could also use
"The containers weren't meant to be a permanent solution"

phillee
Local time: 11:51
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Reference comments


9 hrs
Reference: container housings

Reference information:
Container Housing
Shanghai _ China
Die Aufgabenstellung an ANSSP bestand darin einen „Showroom / Ausstellungsplatz inklusive Prototypen für die Umnutzung von Schiffscontainer“ zu entwickeln. Der Auftraggeber wollte alte Schiffscontainer zu Wohncontainern umbauen.
http://www.anssp.de/projekte/container-housing

Other container housings see:
https://www.google.de/search?q="Container-housing"&lr=lang_d...

Johannes Gleim
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Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 51
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