When we think of shipping container homes, we usually think of square blocks with their original corrugated metal walls, but the range of residential uses for shipping container homes has really increased, and has been for a while. The shipping container home trend is becoming a significant part of architecture and design, for everything from sheds and storage buildings to offices, guest houses, cabins, tiny homes, large mansions, apartment complexes and a lot of others.
Recently we’ve been looking at shipping container buildings — especially residential — more because of the sometimes lower cost of building with them. When you buy shipping container bins used, its for a couple of thousand dollars, and there is a big variety: some are fully bins, some have doors, some have ribs instead of walls, some have roofs, and so if there’s supply appropriate, they can fill in big parts of a building’s material needs.
We also found a company that has been collecting shipping container builds and putting them together in a collection (a pdf book called “Shipping Container Homes”). They’re called Container Home. Here’s one of the houses they’ve collected from Gran Designs for James Anscomb in Western Australia using two type 1A HC containers. It’s just a small self-contained accessory apartment (usually part of a bigger house), otherwise known as a “granny flat.”
This 640 square foot shipping container house cost the equivalent of approximately $69,000 USD.
“Constructed off site and then positioned onto pre-installed footings using a 220 ton crane the install was completed and the house made ready for move into within 3 days of the building modules arriving on site.
“The house features 8.33 ft high ceilings throughout and R3.5 insulation to the ceiling and external walls and R1.5 to the internal walls.”
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Find more from “Shipping Container Homes” and other companies we’ve indexed in our Home Designers and Builders Directory. You can search the company’s name and look builders near your area. And to see more shipping container buildings, click here.
