weburbanist.com — There are countless numbers of empty, unused shipping containers around the world just sitting on the shipping docks and taking up space. Some creative designers have begun using these strange surplus structures to build amazing home and office buildings.
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Closed AccountMay 27, 2008
Yeah, pack em in iRobot style.
omnicientMay 27, 2008
On boats they stack these NINE HIGH! If you cut the holes in the right place, there's no need for supports. They ship cars and trucks in these, stacked NINE HIGH (again!).Of course, you'd still have to have some kind of concrete footing/foundation, but you could easily have it fitted one place, where there's labor, and then have it trucked and assembled easily elsewhere.
yaddayaddayodaMay 27, 2008
Siberia.
Closed AccountMay 28, 2008
Well aren't you the compassionate troop supporting ****.
ecogreen4usJun 29, 2008
An excellent resource for information and pics of very cool shipping container homes, hotels, condo's and BizPods is at the International organization website: <a class="user" href="http://www.isbu-info.org/">http://www.isbu-info.org/</a>It is actually one of the fastest growing construction technologies for the past two years.
ecogreen4usJun 29, 2008
An excellent resource for shipping container construction of homes, coffee shops, hotels and large houses is at the international organization website. The organization for the promotion of shipping container construction is ISBU Association and their website is: <a class="user" href="http://isbu-info.org">http://isbu-info.org</a>The website has info and pics of some very cool home designs and uses for shipping containers. It's gotten a lot of interest in the past couple years and is now one of the fastest growing building technologies globally.
missteryFeb 25, 2009
That is some seriously impressive architectural work! To take a horrid shipping container and turn it into a decked area near a water feature takes some awesome imagination.
cat180180Jan 25, 2010
Please check out this website. This engineer says you can not put them underground. Our survival group is considerin this also but now we might have to go back to the drawing boards.<a class="user" href="http://www.runkleconsulting.com/Shipping%20Container%20Houses/ShippingContainerHouseEngineering.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.runkleconsulting.com/Shipping%20Contain ...</a>
chairboyJan 25, 2010
Thank you for the link, I will read it. His analysis of the strengths appears to be exactly the kind of info I was looking for years ago.