Le Temps du Voyage. Shipping Container Homes. There are countless benefits to using shipping containers in architectural design. For starters, there are loads of them, they are easily transportable, you can stack them on top of one another, they are extremely durable, and they are quite cheap (you could pick up a used container for under $1000). Besides all this, shipping containers are also green. The only thing better than great design is great design using recycled materials. New Jersey based Architect Adam Kalkin has earned the reputation of employing shipping containers in very inventive ways. He has used containers to design anything from luxurious homes to refugee housing.
Kalkin designed, built, and lives in the beautiful shipping container home featured below. It was not too long ago that one would be hard pressed to find anyone who would even consider living in a shipping container. Share With Your Friends. Shipping container. Platoon berlin. PLATOON Opens Cultural Center Built From Shipping Containers in Berlin. PLATOON/Promo image A few years back we showed PLATOON's Theater Space Built From 28 Shipping Containers in Seoul; now Lori Zimmer of Inhabitat visits their new facility in Berlin, made from 34 shipping containers. Zimmer describes it: PLATOON Kunsthalle is stacked to form an open atrium inside, and it is divided into four floors, an outdoor plaza, and adjacent outdoor project space.
The steel end caps of the shipping container stacks have been cut away and replaced with glass, allowing light to flood in through the building’s front façade. Platoon/Promo image Platoon describes it themselves: 8 trucks.2 cranes.And 40 cargo containers.But what is it? Out of the box from PLATOON on Vimeo.
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