Home Interior Kitchen Design: Shipping Container Homes

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Shipping Container Homes

But that kind of living is over for her. She will be moving into a home that supporters believe will be the first of its kind in Kentucky — a shipping container converted into a house. "I am going to decorate it and make it real pretty," said Priddy Living in a shipping container might instantly sound like a nightmare, but if you know how to spruce it up, you could live a life of luxury. This is what one architect has proven in Dallas, Texas, with a 3,700-square-foot house completely composed of Homes are springing up around the world featuring the latest trend in green building: Transforming a shipping container into a home. As a home building material, these containers actually have a lot to offer. Because they are abundant, recycling them as a Kolk works for a biotech start-up in San Francisco. The container is his new home, and Iseman is his new next-door neighbor. Driving a forklift and moving shipping containers around is not the kind of work that most Ivy League biz-school grads hope to land. Millions of empty shipping containers sit just waiting to be used for other purposes. Architects are turning them into utilitarian masterpieces. Take a dozen shipping containers, stack 'em, add floor-to-ceiling windows and you get this huge 4,000 square Vodacom has developed a system allowing mobile base stations to be retrofitted to shipping container shops In addition, each site has an equipment storage building to house radio and power equipment. The cost of each installation varies, but is .

But Cosby, who also lost a home in the April 3, 1974, tornado, said he decided minutes after the 2011 tornado passed he was going to move a shipping container onto the property that has been in his family since emancipation. "When I looked out and saw that Shipping Container architecture is “taking the world by storm,” according to Popular Mechanics. Tiny homes are extremely popular with off the grid enthusiasts and folks seeking an affordable way to construct a vacation or retirement oasis. Recycling Everything is supposed to be bigger in Texas, but a local group of high schoolers is proving that's not always true. That's because the students at NISD's Construction Careers Academy are building homes out of shipping containers. It's a bustling Amsterdam student Rose Mandungu stands in front of a colorful apartment complex constructed of a rather unusual material—discarded shipping containers. The crowded Dutch city has been meeting a pressing need for student and other low-income housing by .