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Port-A-Bach
Bring Your Home With You Anywhere Port-A-Bach Container Living Pod by Stelier Workshop
Atelier Workshop in New Zealand has created one of the most interesting living pods yet. Made from a standard shipping container, it is intended as a vacation cabin that folds up and locks completely inside the container for excellent security.
Atelier Workshop in New Zealand has created one of the most interesting living pods yet. Made from a standard shipping container, it is intended as a vacation cabin that folds up and locks completely inside the container for excellent security.
Atelier Workshop’s Port-a-Bach shipping container home might just make standard RVs obsolete. A veritable home on-the-go, you can roll into place, fold down one side, make your bed and be right at home. As long as you have some property, of course.
Taking the portability of shipping container housing to an altogether new level of portability, this 20-foot container has been outfitted with an entire studio apartment, including a kitchen and a full bath with a composting toilet. It also has a “non-invasive foundation”, which allows for plenty of flexibility in terms of ground placement.
One wall of the container lowers to create a deck, which can be enclosed in tent or screen to double the usable space. Likewise the old contain door opens and can be enclosed with snap on tent material to offer enclosed bunk space for sleeping two, while a double bed folds down from the wall to allow sleeping of four.
One wall of the container lowers to create a deck, which can be enclosed in tent or screen to double the usable space. Likewise the old contain door opens and can be enclosed with snap on tent material to offer enclosed bunk space for sleeping two, while a double bed folds down from the wall to allow sleeping of four.
While Atelier says the Port-a-Bach is made for 2 adults and 2 children (with an “interior fabric screen system [that] gives the versatility of creating rooms within the large open living space”), it seems to me to be a wee bit small for a family of four. Folding bunk beds aside, of course. It also offers little in terms of privacy, which means you’ll probably want to send your children out to play while you shower — and if the weather is bad, you all had better enjoy each other’s company. But if used solely for road trips, you could probably make it work.
Overcrowding aside, Port-a-Bach is small, energy efficient, designed to be environmentally clean and easy to hook up to services. Now all you need to make your vacation a success is an 18-wheeler or a helicopter. Bon voyage!
F E A T U R E S
- fully enclosed exterior steel shell (when folded up)
- appointed with large internal storage cupboards and shelves / stainless steel kitchen and fittings / bathroom with open shower, sink, composting toilet
- interior fabric screen system gives the versatility of creating rooms within the large open living space, includes bunk beds, double bed room, dressing room, kitchen and bathroom
- exterior canvas screen system allows to shelter the deck area for comfortable indoor/outdoor flow and living
- 6 concrete footings form a stable, non-invasive 'foundation', allowing you to situate the unit on a wide range of ground conditions.
- fully enclosed exterior steel shell (when folded up)
- appointed with large internal storage cupboards and shelves / stainless steel kitchen and fittings / bathroom with open shower, sink, composting toilet
- interior fabric screen system gives the versatility of creating rooms within the large open living space, includes bunk beds, double bed room, dressing room, kitchen and bathroom
- exterior canvas screen system allows to shelter the deck area for comfortable indoor/outdoor flow and living
- 6 concrete footings form a stable, non-invasive 'foundation', allowing you to situate the unit on a wide range of ground conditions.
