{"id":14375,"date":"2015-02-25T12:35:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfull.eu\/blog\/?p=14375"},"modified":"2016-02-12T17:55:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:55:01","slug":"12-modern-homes-made-from-shipping-containers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/2015\/02\/25\/12-modern-homes-made-from-shipping-containers\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Modern Homes Made From Shipping Containers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Want some ideas on modern homes<\/em><\/strong>? Shipping containers meet a variety of requirements: Modern. Check. Low-cost. Check. Environmentally-friendly. Check.<\/p>\n

See twelve homes that make them work and check out our resources for shipping container builders and plans at the end of the article.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO:\u00a0Unique Monday\u2019s Inspirations #2<\/a><\/p>\n

The photos bellow are from designer and architects that think green and that encourage other to see outside the box (literally) and see the container for \u00a0more than it is: a world of possibilities opens up before them. So c\u2019mon! Let\u2019s play house!<\/p>\n

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Studio H:T. The bedrooms are in the containers while the entry, dining, living, and a loft is in the center area. The project is planned to be off-the-grid using solar orientation, passive cooling, green roofs, pellet stove heating, and photovoltaics to create electricity.<\/p>\n

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Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture designed this orange container home for clients in San Jose, Costa Rica. The goal was to provide them with the spectacular views of the natural landscape. The roof between the two containers is made from the scrap metal.<\/p>\n

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Copenhagen-based architecture firm arcgency created the \u201cWFH House\u201d in Wuxi, China, out of three stacked shipping containers. Upcycled steel shipping containers were used for a steel frame, which was then clad with a sustainable bamboo facade. The home includes a rainwater collection system, solar cell-clad green roof, skylights, and permeable paving.<\/p>\n

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This structure, which was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is called the MDU, or Mobile Dwelling Unit, and was designed by Lot-EK. It is meant to travel with its dweller to long term destinations. When traveling, its sub-volumes are pushed in to fill the entire container, and then interlock so the container is left flush and can be shipped worldwide. When in use, the sub-volumes are pushed out, and its 500-square-foot interior is suitable for living and working.<\/p>\n

Note the white corrugated wall; that should tip you off that this is the interior of a shipping container home. In fact, this Houston residence is composed of three containers, to make a total of 1,538-square feet of living space. Architect Christopher Robertson of local firm Robertson Design says one of the goals was to make it feel like a typical home.<\/p>\n

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Poteet Architects, a firm known for its adaptive reuse of existing buildings, designed this 32-square-foot guest house in San Antonio, Texas using a shipping container. The interior is lined with bamboo plywood for the floor and the walls and the deck is made out of recycled soda bottles. It has a planted roof too.<\/p>\n

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The emerald green-accented Crossbox house in Brittany, France was designed by CG Architects. Two shipping containers are cantilevered above two more, and there\u2019s a planted roof too. Like traditional setups, the bedrooms are on top and the living\/dining spaces below.<\/p>\n

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Cove Park, located on 50-acres of Scotland\u2019s west coast, is a community of established artists. In 2002, Container City created three cubes made of shipping containers to act as artist retreats, and another six were added in 2006.<\/p>\n

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This Adam Kalkin Container House in Califon, New Jersey, is three shipping containers wide by two shipping containers tall. Glass on two sides allows ample light to shine in, and the industrial materials continue throughout, with a concrete floor and steel beams and columns. Rustic fir flooring and mahogany closing doors ensure it works in its wooded surroundings.<\/p>\n

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This perfectly simple, wood clad, absolutely horizontal 40-foot cargo container house sits on a flat site in the Galician countryside of Spain. Its porch and removable awning allow for outdoor enjoyment, which is ideal since it\u2019s a summer house. It was designed by architects Severo Fern\u00e1ndez and Basilio Rodr\u00edguez of Estudio Base.<\/p>\n

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Maziar Behrooz Architecture designed this 840-square-foot art studio next to the client\u2019s house in the summer enclave of the Hamptons on Long Island, New York. They used two shipping containers which were painted dark charcoal to match the main house; both blend into the surrounding woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Want some ideas on modern homes? Shipping containers meet a variety of requirements: Modern. Check. Low-cost. Check. Environmentally-friendly. Check. See twelve homes that make them work and check out our resources for shipping container builders and plans at the end of the article. SEE ALSO:\u00a0Unique Monday\u2019s Inspirations #2 The photos bellow are from designer and architects that think green and that encourage other to see outside the box (literally) and see the container for \u00a0more than it is: a world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":14386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[655,51,5],"tags":[1134,4146,65,4143,5952,4136,4137],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delightfull.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}