For example, a single 20′ container can be designed as a single unit, or pod, to include a single bedroom and bathroom while another 20′ container can be designed as the public portion of the home. By putting these two containers together, you get a 1 bedroom, 1 bath home that can be built quickly …
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For six months, Granary Row become a pop-up neighborhood– flanked by 2 lanes of traffic — where fledgling entrepreneurs could get a start (year one saw clothing stores, a bike shop, an art gallery and a local humane society), food trucks parked, affordable shipping container micro-housing was displayed and the neighborhood got to know each …
This isn’t a tiny container home, but there will probably be many lessons learned & shared by these folks that could help future tiny container owner-builders. Today started with snow and ended with cutting the first hole out of our containers. We cut out the guest bathroom window and put in the frame… The frame …
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The Shipping Container Home was still a new concept when Chrissie designed and built this prototype for her Architectural Thesis project. The home is made from a 20′ container and “expands” to be a 250sq.ft living space. When the home is not in use, or for shipping, the “rooms” slide into the container on tracks; …
Tiny cabins made from shipping containers. Montainer has now begun production of the Cargotecture Series “container home” product line shipped to any location in the United States. Due to our limited production capacity, we can produce just 25 homes in 2014.” – Montainer Learn more about Montainer Container Homes and Follow Montainer on Facebook.
Before our container began its new life as a guest house in our yard, it trucked pineapples around Hawai’i. Everyone who sees it thinks that it’s pretty amazing… The Big Yellow container is comfortably nestled in our fenced backyard and is conveniently located between the Wallingford and Fremont neighborhoods in Seattle.” – VRBO Learn more and …
The premade container home maker Cargotecture now offers a prefab home that is a perfect way to downsize yet retain the comforts of living in a larger space. The c-series 640 Lookout model measures 640 square feet, and features a large living area with a kitchen, a spacious bedroom and bathroom, a media room and …
This Solar Energy Pod designed by Michael Miller, architect, will be fitted with a bathroom and kitchen and will plug in to a standard RV outlet, but will generate enough electricity to provide for all of it’s own needs including air conditioning. A similar model is being made into a drive up restaurant with batteries …
Liberty 200 is designed as an off-grid unit and comes with off grid packages: composting toilet, solar PV and solar thermal, battery bank and internal water tank. Liberty 200 includes a 40 sf exterior deck space. The indoor area is 160 sf.” – MEKA Learn more about the Liberty 200
When you leave for work and want to lock your doors, you simply push the button again and the home is protected by it’s steel shell. One side of the container is populated predominately with floor-to-ceiling windows, bathing the interior with natural light on the cloudiest of days. The other side of the container is …
The Forge system offers the flexibility of an open plan space that can accommodate a setout to suit your needs and budget, and to help get you started, our plans offer a popular “bed and bathroom” setup. So whether you have the hankering for a live-in arrangement, or the simple comforts of a sofa and …
The one-bedroom, one bathroom home was built using two, 20-foot containers with cutouts for windows and doors. There’s a prefab bathroom inside and the interior is insulated with a recycled content material. Located in Thailand, the home features a roof layer that’s raised above the home — not unlike the roof design of the Ultimate …
