SG Blocks Container Home

SG Blocks Container Home
nice looking shipping container home, location unkown.
from link at SG Blocks

Rimbey home built from 30 steel shipping containers

The Glennon family’s retirement home might just look like a stack of shipping containers of all different colours from the outside.

But once it’s complete, it will be a sprawling, 5,000-square-foot, four storey building — two levels above ground, a walkout basement and another level below — with four bedrooms, five bathrooms, a games and media room, garage and workshop, and two enclosed decks.

A massive garden with a potato crop, chickens, and a trout pond, will surround the residence on the eight-hectare property just outside Rimbey, about 180 kilometres north of Calgary.
Story from Calgary Herald 

Shipping Container House In Panama

An ongoing project as a family build their home out of 2 x 40 ft ISBU shipping containers in Panama.
http://shippingcontainerhousepanama.wordpress.com/

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Earth Science Far North Queensland Australia

Earth Science Far North Queensland Australia

Remote accomodation is always a challenge in difficult terrain.

What follows is an example of using two conventional shipping containers to create 90 square meters of living space in dense rainforest adjoining World Heritage Rainforest. The facility, on a nature refuge is used for rainforest research. The terrain is extremely difficult and accessed via a narrow track. In less severe terrain a 40' container might be better value, however the larger container at about 3.5 tonnes would require a much larger truck and a much better road. Unloading would also be a problem.

Shipping containers have wooden, not steel floors. It is important to leave some air space below them in wet environments. When stacking containers, most of the weight is carried by the steel frames around the ends of the container. If you wish to stack containers at right angles additional internal support for the bottom container may be required. Some containers have additional support along their side edges but they are hard to find.

 We used two 6m (20') containers placed 3m (10') apart.

The original roof was damaged in a storm.

http://earthsci.org/education/fieldsk/container/container.html

Tin Can Cabin in northern Wisconsin

Tin Can Cabin in northern Wisconsin

3 x 20 ft shipping container place on concrete lentils in 40 acres of farmland and woods, simple but practice and well done

http://www.tincancabin.com

 

 

 

Containers of Hope Costa Rican Shipping Container House

Containers of Hope is the latest project by Benjamin Garcia Saxe and is composed of two 40' shipping containers set together with a raised mid section and clerestory windows. The discarded shipping container home was built for a couple who wanted to live debt free on their property outside of San Jose, Costa Rica. A simple skewed arrangement of the containers allows a view of the rising and setting sun and is perfect for cooling via natural ventilation.

http://www.benjamingarciasaxe.com

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Team China Tongji University, Y Container

Team China Tongji University, Y Container
Team China's U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 entry, Y Container, combines six recycled shipping containers into a succinct, Y-shaped solar house. Y Container is easy to transport, assemble, and expand—providing the freedom to live anywhere with low costs and clean energy. It is a living house that can contain the energy, water, and plants required for an individual to enjoy an independent and natural lifestyle.

Millions of Shipping Containers

How many Homes could you make with all these ISBU's Shipping Containers?

A truck drives into a shipping container area at Qingdao port in China’s manufacturing powerhouse, Shandong province.

Me dreaming of what I would do with all these containers?

Citihub Mandaluyong Shipping Container Dormitory in the Philippines

Citihub Mandaluyong Shipping Container Dormitory in the Philippines that’s built from shipping containers and designed for low-income workers and students.
Designed by Manila’s Arcya Commercial Corporation, Citihub Mandaluyong is situated on a stretch of land in Mandaluyong along the Pasig River.

Asbury Park Boardwalk Container Shops

Asbury Park Boardwalk Container Shops
Asbury Park, NJ will become home to four awesome new pop-up shipping container shops this summer. Designed by Madison Marquette, the containers were salvaged from a shipyard and painted to fit in with the boardwalk‘s other bright and colorful stores. The versatile containers are 100% recycled and are sure to add to the Jersey Shore’s goals of becoming a low carbon footprint destination.

MUVBOX Concept Shipping Container resturant

Hard to believe but when it opens-up in under a minute and transforms into a restaurant, a pop-up store or an art gallery, you'll believe it. It's called MUVBOX because it can be moved. Since it is not set permanently in the ground, there is no need for building permits. It can be dropped anywhere, with relative ease, without a large truck cabin lingering around taking up space. Daily opening and closing and table set-up is simple. And the whole container can be easily transported by road, rail or sea.

Created out of an old shipping container and powered by solar energy, this application of the MUVBOX concept in Old-Montreal is a modern-day reinvention of the old-fashioned canteen. Each night the MUVBOX vanishes back into its cube, and redeploys early the next morning at the touch of a button, in less than two minutes!

Christchurch Dairy Store

In the wake of the Earthquake disaster that struck Christchurch NZ, they are using ISBUs Shipping Containers to house temporary stores, here's a great story.
http://rebuildingchristchurch.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/the-sydenham-shipping-container-dairy/

Sunset Cargotecture Home, very nice ISBU

Sunset Cargotecture Home
Shipping container home ISBU built in a 20" shipping container, even the yellow colour is kind of cool.
Not sure on the doors opening both side it takes away valuable storage space, but non the less its very good.
http://www.cargotecture.com/