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 Claudie Dubreuil in Quebec using four type 1A HC containers.
“One of the most popular emerging trends within the container home community is to insulate and clad the exterior walls rather than to insulate and drywall the interior walls and leaving the container exposed externally.
“This method creates the look and feel of more traditional construction methods whilst retaining the benefits of the container construction methodology.
“Claudie Dubreuil has built this 1,920 square feet; 3 bedrooms, 2½ bathrooms container home from 4 x type 1a 40’ hc containers in Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, Canada using low maintenance unstained hemlock spruce cladding over closed cell spray foam.
“The home is configured as a two story cross cantilevered design and features 5” poured concrete flooring with radiant flooring on both levels.”
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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.
