Modern Shipping Container Homes
Before you build your own shipping container home you ll have to buy one.
Modern shipping container homes. The modular homes are made from steel making them extra hardy against earthquakes hurricanes and tornadoes. Architects designers and builders have actually found a way to transform big boxes of steel into beautiful and fully functional homes. The name says it all.
Modern shipping container homes and retreats house by adam kalkin 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. Construction of this style of home just happens to be easier and faster with recycled shipping containers. There is a hot new trend.
This simple yet modern shipping container home was designed by benjamin garcia saxe for the peralta family. When it comes to configurations they re like a blank slate. Modern prefab and modular homes.
You can build a shipping container home out of one 20 foot shipping container or several large 40 foot containers. We go over the materials used in our latest. Luckdrops studio is a one bedroom one bathroom shipping container home with 287 square feet of living space.
Steel frame modulars and shipping container homes built in alberta canada and delivered throughout western canada and western usa including california washington british columbia alberta edmonton calgary b c. Vancouver okanagan whistler san francisco seattle los angeles gulf islands victoria nanaimo. The container is metal and when you add that to your concrete foundation you have the same materials and fundamental design of modern style homes.
They can be new or used and when there is more than one they re usually stacked on top of each other. Basically you modify and re purpose used shipping containers and stick them together to build a house. In this video we go over 15 sections you will need to consider when building your 40ft.