23 Surprisingly Gorgeous Homes Made From Shipping Containers

Because shipping containers are like Legos for adults. posted on October 15, 2013 at 5:56pm EDT

   Kristin Chirico BuzzFeed Staff

This is a shipping container. It’s used to transport large amounts of goods on boats and on trains. By itself, it’s pretty boring.

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But with a little imagination, the shipping container becomes a cheap, reliable building block that can be used to build chic little getaway homes and castles of majesty alike!

1. Like this adorable guest house:

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Look at those wood floors. Just look at them.

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There’s even a garden on top!

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2. This bright and modern Redondo Beach home…

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…which is even bigger than you think.

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And if it’s a lovely evening, you can lift up the wall and bring the evening to you.

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3. This amazing New Zealand beach house is like the perfect sun porch during the day…

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…and the coziest little party house at night.

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It even has a fireplace!

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4. This shipping container has literally been turned into a treehouse.

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5. This is the woodland cottage of your dreams.

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6. This shipping container house actually has another house built INSIDE it!

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See?

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7. This hobbity home is able to blend into its environment.

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8. This painted fancy pad by Brazillian Architect Marcio Kogan doesn’t try to hide the containers.

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Instead, it lets them be the fun little Legos that they are.

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9. The Ecopod can be on or off the grid, and is entirely made from recycled materials.

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Even the floor is made from recycled car tires!

10. The Kalkin House in Vermont knows how to make an entrance.

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This house doesn’t even make you decide whether you want to be outdoors or in.

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11. This adorable snow fort in Quebec took seven shipping containers to make.

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12. This delightful cabin was the first shipping container home in Colorado.

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13. Would you even guess that the Beach Box, a beach house in the Hamptons, was made from shipping containers?

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It makes for instant detailed ceilings!

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14. This bright and light little prefab home is like a Barbie Dream House come to life.

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15. The Manifesto House in Chile was built for only $118,000.

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That staircase looks almost like it’s floating.

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16. This two-story American Dream embraces its shipping container roots, as well.

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17. The Boxcar Child in you wants to live here so badly.

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18. This Mojave Desert home almost makes you want to live in the Mojave Desert.

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19. This contemporary home was built from only five containers, and while it may seem dark…

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…inside it’s all roominess and textures and WINDOWS!

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20. This in-your-face Chilean hillside house turns up the drama.

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21. This little cabin is practically a playhouse for adults.

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22. This Sri Lankan holiday cabin was built on an army base, and was made from a shipping container and other reclaimed materials, including old weapons boxes and timber from old bunkers.

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23. This San Jose home has a slanted roof on top to let hot air out and sunlight in.

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It cost only $40,000 to build.

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But it has million dollar views.

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About ISBU Depot - Shipping Container Homes

Shipping Container Home / ISBU - Sketchup Animation
ISBU (Intermodal Steel Building Units)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sEkmNrpejY&feature=related
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Home  |  Google® Sketches  |  My Planned Home  |  About Me

About Me... (Intermodal Steel Building Units) I have always been interested in cookie cutter designs I live in Houston, TX and started getting interested in ISBU ever since I saw that this may be my ticket to building a property in a flood prone area without having to build on traditional wooden stilts. As you will see from most of the sketches I have made, they are all at least one story off of the ground. This would allow for a clearance of 8.5' before any flood waters would enter the main living areas. I still have a lot to learn about the physical construction of these units that is why I am going to try and post as many pictures as possible that I can find of actual ISBUs being created and fabricated. I have called around several places here in Houston and the running average price of a 40' Container is around $2300.00 plus a $200.00 delivery charge to the work site. At $2500 a piece I can quickly guage how much the raw containers will cost for each one of the sketches I draw.  I have now been exclusively looking to use only 53' Jindo containers in my designs as the extra 13' allows for a stronger overall structure and quite a bit of extra sq. footage for only a couple hundred dollars more per container. Please feel free to email me at jeff@isbudepot.com with any feedback you may have. I may be open to posting user's sketches as well if they should want to try their hand at Google Sketchup with a design of their own they would like to share with others. Also, if you have some raw contruction pics you wouldn't mind sharing I would be more than happy to post them online so others can learn as I do about what it takes to build these ISBUs out to finished "live-in" ready condition...

Shipping Container Home / ISBU - Sketchup Animation

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Uploaded by isbudepot on Dec 31, 2010

 

14 - 40' high cube containers. Stacked and modified for residential use. 2240 Sq. Foot 4 bedroom / 2 bath / 4 car garage. The roof has a 5/12 pitch and is built using 31 - 40' pre-engineered roof trusses spaced 24" apart. The foundations are 3 solid 1' wide by 6' 6" footings with embedded 10" x 1/2" steel plates used to weld the containers to. It stands 1' above the ground. 

 The section plane / section cut animation proved to be rather difficult at first but once I learned the method it wasn't too hard to complete. It was exported at 1920x1080 @ 10 FPS. I built this in Sketchup in order to more easily relay my vision to potential builders vs. just telling them verbally what I was looking to do. I hope you guys like it...

Shipping Container House

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Architecture
Deceiving Shipping Container Home That Doesn’t Look Like One
by Bridgette Meinhold, 07/16/10
filed under: Architecture, Sustainable Building


If we hadn't told you this was a shipping container house, would you have known?? With a contemporary classic style, regular-looking facade and huge light-filled windows, this lovely home in Richmond, California, designed by Leger Wanaselja Architects, is a great example of the beautiful work that can done with shipping containers. You may like the industrial look of the container, but if you're into a more traditional look, this is the house for you! Check out the interior shots of this deceiving home - they give you a really good idea of the available space.

Built out of three insulated shipping containers and stacked on two levels with a two-story atrium in the middle, this home packs a lot into a small footprint. Coming in at only 1,350 sq feet, the home has three good sized bedrooms, and a large open living room which connects into the long kitchen and dining room. Two 40′ containers are stacked on top of each other serving as the master bedroom on top and a kitchen/dining area on the ground floor. The other container is cut in half and stacked to create two more bedrooms. Between the stacks is a large two story living area with floor to ceiling windows and a staircase and bridge to connect to the rooms upstairs.

Solar passively designed, deep roof eaves were used to protect from summer solar gain and operable windows were used to maximize ventilation. As the containers are already insulated, they act as weatherproof exterior siding, insulation, and structural frame. Insulation was only needed in the roof and flooring and framing was only done on interior walls and for the windows. Additional green features include the use of low VOC paints, a 100% wool carpet, bamboo flooring, a 50% flyash concrete foundation, blown-in cellulose insulation, stacked plumbing, roof rainwater collection, high efficiency lighting, solatubes, and a ton more green features which you can see here: http://www.greenrenter.com/building/258/richmond_ca/casa-verdanta

+ Leger Wanaselja Architects

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photo credits: Jan Grygier

Read more: Shipping Container House by Leger Wanaselja Architects | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World




more... http://inhabitat.com/2010/07/16/fantastic-california-home-surprisingly-made-from-shipping-containers/

Videos: http://shipping-container-house-yurt.phanfare.com/2008/






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12 Shipping Container House

www.prefabs.com/PrefabHomes/AdamKalkin/12ContainerHouse.htm

Adam Kalkin 12 shipping container house
Casa del 12 contenedor del kalkin de Adam Kalkin / Web Urbanist

Adam Kalkin is part artist, part architect. His 12 Container Home design shows off both parts flawlessly. Built from – surprise – 12 recycled shipping containers, the ultra-modern open-air home somehow manages to feel cozy. The unique T-shaped design leaves a completely open center living area with floor-to-ceiling windows. ...

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Adán Kalkin es artista de la parte, arquitecto de la parte. Su diseño casero de 12 envases demuestra apagado ambas piezas sin defectos. Construido - sorpresa - de 12 contenedores reciclados, el hogar al aire libre ultramoderno maneja de alguna manera sentir acogedor. El diseño T-shaped único deja un área viva de centro totalmente abierta con las ventanas del piso-a-techo. ...

http://weburbanist.com/2009/12/01/cargo-shipping-container-house-home/4-adam-kalkin-12-container-house

Container Architecture, from Web Urbanist:



20 Shipping Container Cities, Apartments and Emergency Shelters

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST

More classrooms for LIFE School in Panajachel, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala?

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Adam Kalkin: http://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibit/architecture/team-godsell.html

Quik-Build House: http://www.quik-build.com/quikHouse/QH_video.htm

Video Container Housing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65C9OLvmjpI

A clip from History Channel's "Modern Marvels" about London's Container City - a project which utilises end of life shipping containers into habitable accommodation ...

http://weburbanist.com/2008/05/26/cargo-container-homes-and-offices/


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Great site for Shipping Container Architecture: firmitas.org

Introduction
This is a webpage devoted to listing as many examples of people using shipping containers as architectural elements as I can find, in an effort to embolden people to use containers in building projects, when and where doing so is feasible and appropriate. Be aware that containers are not a perfect building material, since they tend to corrode, but they have been used effectively in some cases, especially in areas near saltwater. This is mainly a links page, and I cannot guarantee anything at all about the sites that I am offering links to, but I try to periodically search for and add links that are fresh and offer something useful and interesting, and I remove bad links and projects where information is incomplete. If you have a site worth adding, or experiences to relate in using containers for building, please contact me.

http://firmitas.org


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