The floor boards are also made of recycled materials making this house a quite sustainable piece of architecture.
Utrecht is home to the largest university in the Netherlands (Utrecht University), so it's not surprising that the region would face a housing crunch. Modified containers can help take up some of the demand.
MODS does have an extensive portfolio of previous projects, lending support to their claim of being a leading innovator in designing and building modular structures using shipping containers.
Billed as the largest container city in the world, Amsterdam's massive Keetwonen complex houses 1,000 students, many of whom are happy to secure housing in the city's tight real estate market.
Canadian architect Keith Dewey took a cue from a magazine when designing the Zigloo Domestique Complete complex, one of the first shipping container homes in the entire country. He retrofitted eight 20-foot cargo units with a proper roof, outfitting the interior of the home soon afterward with a slew of sustainable materials intended to go hand in hand with the passive ventilation and the house’s modern design.
Key features: Alberta-based Honomobo builds several different models of shipping container homes. The HO# uses three shipping containers knit together to create a bedroom, kitchen with an island, and a 21-foot front window to maximize light.
If luxury living in a container is what you’re after, Alternative Living Spaces is a great place to start. We recently wrote about one of their homes for sale – a beautifully bright 20 foot model packed with gorgeous features.
All Cargotecture’s container homes are insulated to 15% above building codes in the walls, floors and roofs. The buildings include plumbing if your model has a kitchen or a bathroom. Each shipping container home is inspection-approved and move-in ready.Â
Mountainer offers a complete package when it comes to planning and building backyard homes or extensions out of shipping containers. You place your order, you come up with a list of features and layout details that you’d like to include into your new container home then a design team helps you finalize your plan and also checks the property’s permitting requirements and offers a pricing estimate.
Modern shipping container homes are popular due to their versatility and affordability. Despite having a pre-made shape containers can be stacked in a lot of different ways to produce unusual forms for modern dwellings.
Six Oaks residence by Modulus sits in a redwood forest with 1,200 square feet (111 sq m) of space and the preserved original exterior of the six shipping containers left intact. The house includes glass inclusions here and there to illuminate the house.
Designed by Mario Plasencia it is partially covered with wooden slat screens and the original container doors make for the apartment balconies. Modern shipping container homes are simply made to solve housing problems.
While the disadvantages are plenty, if the original source you can overcome them, then containers will work out. The question then becomes whether you are equipped to overcome these problems or if it might make more sense to outsource your building to the professionals.
The house’s red color makes it stand out in a field but its pitched roof gives it a more familiar traditional touch.