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 the Tomocek Studio in Canon City, Colorado using seven type 1A HC containers. The name of the custom and the cost of the build weren’t disclosed for this one.
Shipping containers used:
1 x 40’ type 1A container
6 x 20’ type 1A containers
“This is the third container based construction project undertaken by the studio. The project was created as a family retreat and consists of two bedrooms and two bathrooms. The containers have been structurally reinforced and enclosed with additional site built walls and custom fitted high-performance glazing assemblies. This home was designed and built to meet the unique needs of the family and it is not considered an “ affordable housing project.”
Check out the gallery of photos below (all images on our site are expandable, even the featured image at the top).
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.
