Shipping Container Architecture, 6 Restaurants in the Contenedores Food Place

Container Restaurants.  The site is much bigger than this, more pictures and information in the post.

10 Square Meters Off Grid Shipping Container Tiny House

This is the accomplishment of years of dreaming.

Snoozebox Hotel, Mobile Architecture in Shipping Container Building

The Snoozebox Hotel is assembled using shipping containers, that can be transported on the site of any event and easily removed when it is over.  There is so much to say that we will just list the specifications.  Self-contained with different bedroom layouts, thermostatic climate control, en-suite wet room with toilet, basin and shower, a flat screen TV, double power points and free Wi-Fi connection.  The hotel is usually erected within 48 Hrs of arriving on site.  No external provision for electricity, water or sewerage are required, for Snoozebox to operate.  Minimum number of rooms that have to be ordered are 40 and maximum 400.  The site can be booked for one day or an entire season.  The Hotel can be moved by road, rail, air or sea anywhere in the world.  An amazing adaptation for the use of temporary Architecture.

Architectural Shipping Container - Mobile Dwelling Unit

LOT-EK is an incredible company driven by Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano to upcycle materials to construct homes.  They have a lot of experience with modifying 40 foot (12m) shipping containers, in all sorts of different configurations, for both Commercial and Residential use.  The advantages of this resource is: Sustainability, Modularity (lego  kind of construction), Durability (they are built to last),  Efficiency (the building is erected a lot faster).  The one we are featuring today is a MDU (Mobile Dwelling Unit) designed for the owner to take around the world.  When in transit the sub-volumes (the parts that stick out of the container) are pushed in allowing it to be transported like a normal container.

20ft Shipping Container Tiny House Architecture for USD 39K

A condensed house, that embodies all of the essentials, a home needs.

Mortgage Free Under $50,000 Shipping Container Home

The post comes with a video showing the main steps to convert a shipping container to a home.

Modern Architecture achieved Upcycling 4 Shipping Containers

From the outside you wouldn't guess that, this house was constructed using 4 Shipping Containers.

Double Wide Container Home with Rustic Interior

Simple house but very homely, quickly constructed by upcycling shipping containers.

Miniature Sculptures and Stencils to Create Architecture

Miniature buildings that look like the real thing.

Recycled Container House

To me this project shows how, scarcely utilised a potential asset like shipping containers are.  Yes there are small scale projects here and there that use containers, once they have reached the end of the life as maritime freight, but mainstream Architecture and Engineering have not really embraced these cheap building blocks to their full potential.  Architect Benjamin Garcia Saxe constructed a home in San Jose, Costa Rica, which was very inexpensive compared to traditional buildings, that allowed the owners to live debt free, without having to compromise with design and functionality.  The house allows for spectacular views thanks to the amount of glass used.

Sustainable Two Story Tiny House Shipping Containers

Buildings like The Helmn, provide more affordable homes with some great specifications.

Recycled Architectural Container Hotel - Flying Nest

A novel concept, that sees a hotel move to any location in the world, for an event or for a season.

Upcycled & Recycled Architectural G-Pod

The G-Pod... imagine extending out a 20 Foot shipping container, the way most top-end RVs (recreational vehicles) do. The makers say that when fully extended it can almost triple its floor area.  It can be transported all over the world and can be used as an office, pop-up venue, student accommodation, home or vacations retreat.  Because of its modular structure, more components can be added if necessary.  The standard structure is a 20 foot container 1 Bed 1 WC Shower room and kitchen / lounge with foldable windows leading to the deck. Or the 40 foot container that has 1 double room and a room for 2 single beds.  They offer a number of variations on the floor plans to suit your needs.

Architecture - Recycled Container Skyscraper Homes

Ganti & Associates entered a world wide competition called superskyscrapers, with the brief to provide temporary accommodation for the densely populated Dharavi Slum in Mumbai, India, using shipping containers.  Their proposal won the 1st prise in the 2015 competition.  Their building consisted of a frame that supports a repeated pattern of containers 100m (328 feet) 32 storey high.  Each apartment is made up by 3 containers (40’ Long X 8’ Wide X 8’6” High) (12.1m X 2.4m X 2.6m) staggered to attain a visually pleasing design.  The floor above cantilevers over the floor below to create a covered corridor.  The building would generate both solar and wind power to make the habitation more affordable, you can see more in the images below.

Recycled Affordable Architecture - Shipping Containers

Real estate broker and Crossroads volunteer Jeff White was inspired by the temporary shelter a Homeless lady (Sarah), in San Francisco, constructed and that is why this container construction carries her name "The Sarah House".  These are some of the Stats:  The house is built using 2 containers, each one measures, 40 feet (12m) long 8 feet (2.4m) wide and 9 feet 6 inches (2.9m) high.  The house is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and measures 672 square feet (62.4m²). This one to two Bedroom House, is on the market for $135.000 (on the video he says his price range should be $108.000 to $112.000) you can only buy it if you are on low income.  There is more information and a Video in the Article.  To get the best effect, once in the article you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one).

Shipping Container – Student Accommodation

South African Property Developers Citiq saw the the opportunity to refurbish unused Grain Silos and pairing them with recycled Shipping Containers to produce low cost accommodations for cash strapped Students in Johannesburg, South Africa.  The project only took a year to complete providing 375 Apartments on an 11 storey structure.  Both the Silos and the Containers were fitted with windows to make them liveable with balconies on the containers.  More information in the article under the images.  Via jetsongreen.

If you like this article, have a look at  Recycled Container House.

Container Greenhouse

Another way to recycle old shipping containers.  This apparently simple system is a a complex farm unit that allows growth of vegetables fish and also extraction of methane, as a by product of the fish water filtration.  Damien Chivialle came up with this novel use of used equipment.
Complete System.