We are doing a Senior Showcase for my graduating class and are required to do an informational poster about a current trend, or sustainability, having to do with the Consumer and Family Sciences department (the department that the Interior Design program is based out of at SFSU).
My partner (Sarah Rodebaugh) and I have decided to do out poster on shipping container homes and reuses! Really liked some of the ideas and what people have done to reuse these masses of steel so I thought I'd share.
Seems as though more people are using shipping containers for single family homes as well as condos and apartment buildings more now. It seemed like before it was just an idea that wasn't really being used.
Shipping containers are sold by shipping lines after about 10 years and it seems like they sell pretty cheap (as low as $1,200!) used and new (upwards of $6k). One homeowner used shipping containers that were refigerated so insulation was already included. Using shipping containers for buildings is easy since they are made to stack on top of and next to each other.
These homes are by Cargotecture. They had the last one at PCBC and we were able to walk through it. It was fascinating that all your amenities could be contained in such a small space. Obviously if you went from a regular home to this, you would have to have another storage for miscellaneous things and purge your life of everything. Sometimes that sounds like a dream when I'm trying to organize my office!
A different approach - converting a warehouse space into work space! They put in these shipping containers to create different rooms and offices. Looks like they have a few in there! With some slight modifications liek a side door and a window, you've got yourself the most desired office of them all! What a fun environment to work in!
This 3 bedroom house is made of 3 shipping containers (refigerated) that Leger Wanaselja Architecture designed above the San Francisco Bay. A truly gorgeous, eco friendly home! The inside is gorgeous and you would never geuss you were in a shipping container!
These beautiful grounds are student housing in Paris France that were recently built. Shipping containers are usually about 8 feet wide (which could be bigger than a regular dorm, right?) and usually 20' or 40' long. They reused over 100 shipping containers!
I definitely have too many things I can't part with to be able to live in a container home, but I would love to experience it sometime in my life. They should start making shipping container hotels! They have one that Travelodge made in London, and there's another one in Amsterdam!
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