According to Architect Paola Rossi, building this house with shipping containers meant the total cost was approximately 30 percent less than if they had used regular construction methods.
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 Architect Paola Rossi in Maldonado, Uruguay using four type 1A HC containers.
Containers used:
2 x 40’ type 1A HC
2 x 20’ type 1A HC
“The home is laid out as a studio space ( ie one large open plan room) made by parallel aligning the upper 2 x 40’ containers and removing the entire internal sidewalls creating space for kitchen, dining table, living and sleeping area.
“The two lower 20’ containers are bathroom and guest space / storage.”
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