Residential Shipping Container Primer (RSCP™) (If this is your first time on the RSCP™ website, take a look at What is RSCP™?
For an overview of what is available on the site.) Shipping Containers as Building Components for Home Construction. RSCP™ Primer No two building projects are the same. Even with modular kit applications, variations due to location and climate, site factors such as grading and slope, and home owner preferences (to name a few factors) create substantial differences between projects. The Primer has three parts - Conceive It. To begin, follow the link to the CONCEIVE IT section. The RSCP™ Primer also provides worksheets to outline the design and execute your build. More general information on shipping container homes and architecture is available in the Shipping Container Architecture section.
MORE INFORMATION, ARTICLES, DETAILS, WORKSHEETS, AND PLANS ADDED WEEKLY. 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. Selected projects utilizing shipping containers. Info credits: Zack Smith, Kevin Tze King Ho. Back to top of page Useful linksIf you have any relevant links let us know Container Sources Shipping containers are widely available - here are just a few of the many sources: Technical Resources Books. Container Home Books — Building with ISBUs on a Budget. Want to Live in a ISBU Shipping Container Home?
Post Publication Addition: Since writing this article, I’ve learned an awful lot about ISBU homes.
I’ve even teamed up with an expert on container homes, and together we’ve written a book. If you’re interested in living in an amazing container home yourself, my partner, Alex Klein, and I have written an introductory book on how to do it. Alex has built over 100 ISBU homes around the world, and even consults with Congress on using these containers for housing. The book is called Introduction to Container Homes and Buildings. Want to check it out? If you’re a regular reader of The Greenest Dollar, then you probably already know that I’m enthralled with the idea of living in a micro home. The trend now is in the opposite direction. That’s micro home living. So, it is with the utmost excitement that I share this idea with you.
Pretty amazing, right? These container homes funky, green, amazingly affordable, and comfortable. Can You REALLY Live In A Shipping Container? My mistake. No way. Container Cityâ„¢ Port-a-bach. Www.port-a-bach.com. 10 Clever Architectural Creations Using Cargo Containers: Shipping Container Homes and Offices. Cargo Architecture: 10 Shipping Container Homes & Offices Article by Urbanist, filed under Offices & Commercial in the Architecture category.
With the green theme growing in popularity across every stretch of the world, more and more people are turning to cargo container homes for green alternatives for office, and even new home, construction. There are countless numbers of empty, unused shipping containers around the world just sitting on the shipping docks and taking up space. The reason for this is that it’s too expensive for a country to ship empty containers back to the their origin in most cases, it’s just cheaper to buy new containers from Asia. The result is an extremely high surplus of empty shipping containers that are just waiting to become someone’s home or office. There are plenty of benefits of to the so-called shipping container architecture model.
The world’s first hotel built from recycled shipping containers has popped-up in Uxbridge, West London.