With a little imagination and hard work, some talented architects managed to transform seemingly boring container bins into beautiful homes for all tastes. There are solutions for large families, couples young and old, and even for guests.
There are also many notable advantages in constructing houses with containers. They tend to be cheaper than conventional construction methods / materials and are sustainable. Something that would be discarded finds a new purpose as building materials. So let’s take a look at 15 houses built with containers that are beyond inspiring. Maybe you’ll make a shipping container yourself, and maybe you’ll use some of the ideas here in your design:
1. Beach House made with containers – At first glance, it might seem you couldn’t turn old containers into something fancy and upscale to compete with the most sophisticated beach houses. The Beach Box, a luxurious home made from recycled containers, proves that things are not so. Architect:Andrew Anderson.
2. Crossbox House, a sustainable home – This is a prefabricated house, designed by the French office Clément Gillet Architectes. The house has four modules that fit together to create a property of 112 square meters. The main idea of the project is to save time work and thus save the environment. Photos:Javier Callejas
3. Two-story house made with eight containers – This impressive house with about 210 square meters was built with eight containers. The house tries to mimic a traditional house with an interior furnished with contemporary decor. Some containers were cut because the architect did not want each module to become a separate environment. Architect:Patrick Partouche.
4. House of containers for the whole family – Four containers were needed to raise this house, designed and built by Katie Nichols and John Walter with the help of architect Christopher Robertson. Located in Houston, Texas, it is a project that might inspire family’s looking to build a shipping container house.
5. Containers of Hope, a home built with $40,000 – The couple Gabriela Calvo and Marco Peralta dreamed of living 20 minutes from the city, a little away from the bustle, but close enough to enjoy all the benefits of downtown San José, Costa Rica. A container house has some flexibility in the choice of land, which helped the couple to obtain the life they had dreamed of and, most importantly, affordable. Architect:Benjamin Garcia Saxe. Photo:Andres Garcia Lachner
For more information on any of these prefab house and modular home designers, find them in our directory.
