Type 100 Concept

Hewn Log Cabin Successor

The Type 100 Cabin is Designed for a homestead practitioner as a successor to the hewn log cabin typology. An affordable homestead can be constructed on afford land in remote areas. Individuals developing the homestead are often inspired to build. These practitioners often start with little building experiences. Rail car cabins are perfect for this demographic because they are easy to construct. The homestead practitioner could use their labor and creativity to construct unorthodox walls and finishes without the constraints of structural, water proofing and vapor integrity.

If the practitioner makes a hewn long home from trees on site, the cabin will eventually burn or decompose. Thus, the practitioner merely momentarily holding the commodity until its eventually return to the site’s ecosystem. Constructing a homestead without using site sourced Timber, the practitioner would typically import wood from Canada. Let's keep Canadian wood in Canada. Dead trees are fertilizers to make bigger trees. A rail car would allow minimum wood to be harvested. The impacts of iron mining and recycling would be localized.

The hewn long cabins of the rock mountains were often insulated with stray or hay. This insulation walls were liquidated and used as feed for the livestock when the miners abandoned their homestead. Rail cars earthen walls would be liquidated or composted. The rail car and its continence could be moved to another site or Recycled.

Type 101

Straw Wall Section

Earthen wall structure requires an independent structure to support the roof and pass building code. Locally harvested temper could provide the structure. In most instances the timber structure must be imported. Rail cars are an ideal solution or earth wall structures because of their strength, adaptability and transportability. The developer does not need to relay on specialty contractors. The cabin can be constructed without a foundation. The anodized steel finish provides a robust weather bearer.

Mass wall section

A self-supporting an insulation wall could be made out of anything limited to the imagination of the homestead practitioner.

Conventional Wall Section

Nalers permit conventional Cladding. Type 100 Rail Car could be clad to be a normal structure.

South Wall Section

The south wall will be framed and clad conventionally. Penetrations can be made without consideration to headers because the walls are attached the steel structure.