There’s been a lot of interest in the last few years in shipping containers as building blocks for houses. Shipping container houses do offer some considerable benefits to home builders — strength and availability being two of the foremost. But what does it mean? Building a house out of shipping containers?
Using five long shipping containers, these home builders made a two story modular house for themselves plus a guest house.
The main building is the one pictured above. That one has four shipping containers — it’s two containers wide. They’ve cut the containers open to create patios, window spaces and doors.
This shipping container house is located in the Primavera forest in Jalisco, Mexico, and was designed by S+Diseno.
While some shipping container home designs disguise the building materials, this design accentuates the containers with industrial yellow paint and natural (paint-less) metal finishes.
The shipping containers used in this building are typical 4-high cube containers, 323 square feet (30m2), and the total are of the house is 120m2 or 1291.7sqft. Shipping containers come at various prices, depending on the region, the company, whether they are used and how used they are, as well as what kind of deal the buyer can find.
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