It may have taken the quakes to make us look anew at the versatility of the shipping container, but some have long recognised the big boxes' potential for more than moving goods. Ady Shannon looks at life inside a container home. There are some who would Shipping containers: They're strong, durable and portable, stack easily and link together like Legos. About 25 million of these 20-by-40 feet multicolored boxes move through U.S. container ports a year, hauling children's toys, flat-screen TVs, computers ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) They’re easing people into things at ModEco Development. The 2,250-sq.-ft. home that went up in Royal Oak looks like a new house with big windows and a modern design packed with sharp right angles. At first glance, it might even be One man has really thought outside the box, by turning his home into one. Wanting to escape the city for a simpler life, renewable energy researcher Joseph Dupuis pieced together three disused shipping containers to make a unique house in the woods Cape Town - Last Christmas the Smiths went shopping. Not at the usual shopping mall but to a shipping container depot in Salt River. They had a plan. It involved a few thousand rand, and a dream to have a home they could call their own. In their mid-20s Shipping container homes are gaining momentum for offering home builders flexibility, efficiency, and affordability in the design of innovative housing. While some may consider these freight homes a sublet of the “tiny house” movement, many of them are .
While traveling in Europe, Glen Donaldson saw houses crafted from old shipping containers and was intrigued. But back home in Atlanta—where rail lines carry more than a million boxcars a year—he couldn’t find anything similar. So Donaldson located an Recycling (or upcycling) shipping containers into energy efficient and environmentally friendly homes is also a very affordable way to create your dream home. Standard shipping containers are about 8 feet wide and 8 feet tall and come in both 20- and 40 It may look average. But this tiny house deep in southwest Edmonton is far from typical. The 640 square foot, two-storey house was shipped from China in steel shipping containers. What’s different about this model is that the shipping containers Shipping containers are wonderful things, and so many architects and designers are excited about using them as building blocks. And why not? there are thousands of them lying around, they are really strong, and are pretty cheap. In Denmark, worldFLEXhome .
Monday, January 11, 2016
House From Containers
House From Containers
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