Architect Adam Kalkin is mostly known for his modern shipping container home designs that are so innovative and stylish, they could easily become the poster homes for cargotecture (a term coined for shipping container architecture).
Old Lady House is another work of Adam Kalkin. It represents the two two-storey structures connected with a bridge and makes for a perfect home to share with your guests or parents.
A shipping container-based mall project was also opened in New Zealand, but it is on a whole other scale and with a different philosophy.
The interior design maximizes the potential of the space and is perfect for an office area. The well equipped space includes everything that employees might need as well as a small meeting area. This office refelcts the residential theme appropriate for the area even though it is constructed in a non-traditional way.
Shipping containers aren’t always a perfect solution to housing problems though. They are poorly insulated and present an array of different other issues and challenges that the prospective homeowners should be aware of.
There is pelo mention of price, but I am assuming this contractor charged somewhere around $50k to build this. Doing the project by themselves would have been around $20k-$30k (assuming they can do the work).
From brand new or single use to abandoned, shipping containers are conveniently available as they are the default containers when it comes to the transport of large-scale materials via ship, truck or train.
Adjusting the containers off site and simply having them delivered to the location highly reduces the building time. For example, this particular design was built in only 3 months.
shipping container homes on amazon 1, 2 There is a growing trend of people looking to bypass the 'normal' route for climbing up the so-called housing ladder. One such option is to live in a converted or 'purpose-built' shipping container.
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Update: Nova Deko no longer provides pricing information on their website, but this model is still shown in their residential gallery. You can contact the company for specific pricing.
Before you plan to build or especially buy a shipping container home there are more details to think about and take into consideration than you may think or know. Modern shipping container homes are built with most conveniences in mind but you may want to account for things like changing weather and additional insulation.
Lar Incubo is an incredible example of modern shipping container homes. Designed by architect Maria José Trejos for a professional photographer the house embraces the cedar tree on site and provides enough lighting for working and living.
The owners wanted to direct attention away from the fact that the walls are made of metal and hid them behind drywalls, so that the construction looks like any other house. If you don’t see the exterior, you can never tell that the house is made of shipping containers.