Container Architecture. Building out the box Everytime I drive past Low-Cost housing, I cant stop but wondering what creative measures could have been taken, still remaining in budget to make this habitats look appealing.
With a worldwide focus on recycling and upcycling, I find the creative use of shipping containers as public spaces, offices and houses fascinating. This is certainly not a brand new concept internationally, but I am certainly not seeing creative use of this medium here in South Africa. I find this quite amazing due to the shortage we have here of, classrooms, clinics and even police stations. I have seen the odd use, where holes for windows and a door are placed, yet without any creativity or aesthetic value whatsoever. Container architecture books - Architecture Design, Home Design, Interior Design, Decorating Ideas on Best House Design.
Architecture Examples - Container. Container pool. Containerbay. There is growing interest in the use of shipping containers as the basis for habitable structures.
These "icons of globalization" are relatively inexpensive, structurally sound and in abundant supply. Although, in raw form, containers are dark windowless boxes (which might place them at odds with some of the tenets of modernist design...) they can be highly customizable modular elements of a larger structure. The projects below are sorted alphabetically (by company or designer's name). In addition to the container-based projects listed below we offer links to useful web sites and relevant books.