Finding your home away from home
Here’s another example of a great use of a shipping container. Used to house a San Antonio artist’s studio, guest room, play room and garden shed, it looks warm and inviting, doesn’t it?
The wood floors and walls and the floor to ceiling windows really liven up the space. I love it!
View at Dwell
Though this design is made from two modular section built with a floating ceiling between them, it’d also work with shipping containers or ready-made building materials. It’s a great design – living area and kitchen in the middle, separate sleeping areas on either side!
View at DigsDigs.com
Shipping container homes don’t need to look like shipping container homes, and this home called “Crossbox” is a perfect example. This house looks awesome, don’t you think? And as great as the exterior is, the interior is even better!
View more at CG Architects (via Moco Loco)
There are a few groups looking to quickly build cheap emergency shelters in area hard hit by recent disasters, and they need your help. In Haiti, groups such as Shipping Container Housing and Green Container International Aid are trying to reuse old shipping containers to get people out of the elements and into housing that can withstand hurricanes, and they are seeking the donation of containers to get started.
On a much more selfish note, I kind of like the way these shipping container shelters look. They’re a little cobbled together, but they are totally green, very functional, and kind of fun.
View more at GCIA (via Jetson Green)
This cute little cabin was made with dual shipping containers with some living space in between. Plus the homeowner had the foresight to build the cabin on concrete piers to alleviate any problems with flooding.
The author/designer/builder of the cabin has a wonderful backstory and description of the whole process in building the cabin by hand, I highly suggest checking it out at HiveModular.
For those that think that they wouldn’t want to live in a dark, cold shipping container, check out these photos from a shipping container home built for a green street fair in Phoenix.
Costing less than $100,000, these eminently affordable shipping container homes from Upcycle Living can be built out of up to four shipping containers, are solar panel ready, and include a wide array of recycled and green accoutrements.
Yes, even Texas is getting in on the green movement. This sweet house in Houston was made from four used shipping containers, and looks nice and roomy.
Link (via Jetson Green)
Yeah, that’s a lot of words in that headline, but they’re all true. The geniuses at Alchemy Architects came up with weeHouses, which come in 10 standard options plus you can customize all you want. On top of that, pricing starts at only $65,000. The weeHouse may have moved to the top of my idea list!
Ecopods are from a Canadian company, and take the green refab shipping container living space to a new level. In addition to recycling the shipping container, the Ecopod also contains recycled rubber flooring and soya insulation, as well as integration with solar energy and a virtually maintenance free composting toilet. Plus you can completely seal up the Ecopod, protecting it from the elements (and vandalism). Heck, and they look great, too!
Ecopods (via TinyHouseBlog)
I’m amazed at this fantastic home – not only does it look great, but it’s made from shipping containers! I’m accustomed to seeing the squarishness of the containers, but this house just looks awesome. It’s probably too big to truly use as a cabin, but it does give me some ideas…
Link (via Jetson Green)
