Building with Shipping Containers

Low Cost Structural - high strength. Container-Express offers a great structural strength for a fraction of the cost of traditional construction house. Because all power is contained in the structural elements, as a result of the foundation design is simpler and less expensive, probably all you need are concrete post on the container corners. Containers are an extremely flexible design, with both modular in shape, extremely strong structurally and readily available for a low price. We have a huge pile of unwanted containers in North America and other Western countries. Why? Because it is a huge trade deficit, and most manufacturing is now done in Asia. Full container position on the world, but there is nothing in them set for his return. And the cost of shipping it back is higher than just a new container. So they simply leave them here. Shipping containers are easily available for sale depends on where you look prices for these metal boxes, but I have seen them for as low as $ 900, a check for 20 feet, the shipping charge in the purchase of containers.

Container House Design Concept

Container House Design Concept
The 1120 square meters of modern container house design use, seven 20-foot containers is examined below. All original designs can be modified to suit your property, lifestyle and requirements, or we can develop a design for your website and dreams. This design has an area of 1120 square feet and measures 56 'x 20', this 7 - 8'x20 'container can on columns under each container corner or a full basement are placed.

Container Homes Projects

Container Homes Projects Barking Riverside Marketing Suite

Located on the former wasteland that was developing new marketing suite to a larger community that developed as 2 kilometers along the banks of the Thames at Barking and Dagenham, is fit. Barking Riverside Container was ordered for the project designed with the environment. Wind turbines, solar panels, biomass heating and re-used structure make the projects very low carbon footprint and sustainable high performance throughout its life cycle. The impressive terrace, porch and elegant silver-lines give the building a modern, container innovative design that compliment the future development.

Container Homes Photos

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We’ve featured container-architecture here at Inhabitat before — from Lot-Ek’s altered and extruded prefab container houses, to Cargotecture’s Studio 320 and emergency housing. Clearly, we love the idea of using recycled industrial surplus as the starting point for prefab design, and now Urban Space Management has brought shipping containers to multi-unit, larger-scale housing with the introduction of its component-based, flexible, and widely applicable container construction system.

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Container City, located at Trinity Buoy Wharf in the London Docklands, is one such example of a larger scale housing development comprised of recycled shipping containers. The London docklands development is composed of environmentally friendly work studios and live/work lofts stacked on top of each other to create a 5-story building. What’s particularily interesting about Container City is its scale and flexibility. Architect Nicholas Lacey and Buro Happold created a flexible design system that relies on component pieces instead of units. Instead of using a 1 container = 1 unit approach, their system relies on components in various permutations to create very livable, adaptable spaces. Aside from this Container City residential project, the system has been used in projects as diverse as classrooms, office spaces, residential units, retail spaces and even youth centres.

Containers as architecture are just one of the ways in which we can look at objects and find new uses to them. The modular nature of the containers, their adaptability, and the fact that they can be found in industrial surplus make them an ideal prefab material. The pictures show the adaptability of Nicholas Lacey’s Container City design, and well, how really cool looking it is. Love those colours.


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Container City, Recycled Shipping Container Prefab, Reclaimed Design, Cargo container prefab, Shipping Container City, Green Container Architecture, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Prefab Container Architecture, Urban Space Management, Urban Space Management,

Container City, Recycled Shipping Container Prefab, Reclaimed Design, Cargo container prefab, Shipping Container City, Green Container Architecture, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Prefab Container Architecture, Urban Space Management, Urban Space Management,

Container City, Recycled Shipping Container Prefab, Reclaimed Design, Cargo container prefab, Shipping Container City, Green Container Architecture, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Prefab Container Architecture, Urban Space Management, Urban Space Management,

Container City, Recycled Shipping Container Prefab, Reclaimed Design, Cargo container prefab, Shipping Container City, Green Container Architecture, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Prefab Container Architecture, Urban Space Management, Urban Space Management,

Container City, Recycled Shipping Container Prefab, Reclaimed Design, Cargo container prefab, Shipping Container City, Green Container Architecture, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Prefab Container Architecture, Urban Space Management, Urban Space Management,

Container Home Kit-Container Homes

Back in July, announced the LOT-EK Kit container, a prefabricated, do-it-yourself assembly unit that combines several shipping containers to build modern, smart and affordable housing. 40-foot long shipping containers have been stacked together and to create configurations that vary in size, approximately 1000 to 3000 square feet.
"Each container is processed cutting sections of corrugated metal walls," he explains. "The increase in the number of containers allows the house to open Jan. 1 Bedroom 2, 3 and 4 bedrooms home. The landscape around the houses uses additional containers to configure a pool, a pool house / tool shed and a car door. CHK houses can be dismantled and reassembled elsewhere.
Here is a poster-size PDF to guide you through the options, including a dozen exterior colors:
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