PHUKET: Researching shipping container homes on the internet was an eye opener and it was fascinating how cool and creative some of these homes can be. There are definitely sustainable benefits from building a home with recycled shipping containers The 8-foot-wide steel container, including large cutouts for windows, a front door and covered porch, is a side addition to their 1889 brick row house in Lawrenceville. Only 15 feet wide, the three-story building was big enough for the couple and their son To learn more about Downtown Container Park in Las Vegas, check out this video from IPME. They’re big, boxy and made of steel. Resilient, too: They withstand wind, fire and earthquakes. Stacked on rail cars, ships and the trailer of flatbed trucks, the if you are having trouble finding a second-hand shipping container home that you like, you can always build a brand new one for not that much more. The great thing about making a new shipping container home is that you get to plan and design it to your own GUELPH— If you've ever thought about transforming a steel shipping container into a cozy, off-the-grid home, Christoph Kesting has published a book that could help you through the process. And quite the process it is. The 34-year-old former Guelph native personal touch – making recycled shipping containers an unusual, but ideal home building medium. Moreover, shipping containers cost a mere $2,000 a piece – not bad for a blank canvas. Check out some of these unique homes below via Trueactivist.com: .
For most of the 50-odd years since the first modern metal cargo containers chugged out of a New Jersey port bound for Texas, the big, dumb boxes got no respect from anybody outside the transportation industry. Then, starting in the 1990s, architects If we did, he says, we could build homes more quickly, less expensively and a lot greener. Morin, along with his wife and business partner, Jocelyne Labelle, sells homes made from recycled maritime shipping containers. You know — those long, corrugated With that, we can certainly expect to see more recycled shipping container architecture to come from this Manhattan Beach-based design studio. The house is made up of eight containers of varying sizes bound together by conventional building methods. .
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Container House Building
Container House Building
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