The idea that shipping containers can be used as the main building material for house builders is still gaining in popularity. Shipping container buildings are used for a wide variety of purposes, spanning the range between modular homes, prefab truck to a site and crane down on some supports homes, tiny homes, temporary shelters, emergency dwellings, and then all the way up into larger buildings, like apartment complexes and mansions, which each take a number of shipping containers put together to make. Oh, and houseboats as well sometimes use these, despite the weight. From the wide and continued use of shipping containers, what I gather is that people are finding benefits in them, and it doesn’t seem to be just a fad. The main benefits I see are the cost when people buy these as used shipping containers and the durability and strength.
Recently I came across this interesting company that is compiling lots of shipping container house designs into a pdf downloadable book, called, you might have guessed it, “Container Home.”
This is one of the shipping container houses they chronicled. It’sa 4,0000 square foot shipping container hybrid house in Florida.
“Like many young couples, Roberta and Nick Mahoney wanted a home to call their own, but found that the price of conventional construction was too expensive.
“Their father in law Brazilian Architect Guil Bombonato wanted to to help his daughter and her family to build an interesting and affordable home and so in collaboration is SC Craftsman designed and built this 4000 sqft Hybrid Container Home in Dunnellon Florida from 9 x 40′ Type 1A Containers.
“’It’s hurricane-proof. It’s stronger, cheaper and greener than stick-frame buildings,’” Bombonato said, adding that the construction meets or exceeds all local and state building codes.”
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