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Los Angeles Container Home
construction cost,
green vibe,
koi pond,
laundry,
library,
los angeles,
modern office space,
shipping container,
usa
This 3,000 square foot L.A. home features multiple storage containers in its design and each with its own purpose.
There is a storage container for the entertainment area, library, dining room/office space, master bedroom, and bathroom/laundry room. This place has plenty of large windows which provide plenty of natural lighting as well as awesome views of the garden and koi pond outside.
Aside from using recycled storage containers, this home also uses recycled steel scraps in its construction which further adds to the green vibe that this home resonates and not to mention saved a ton of money on construction costs.
Peter DeMaria's Home
Peter DeMaria Container Home 2006
The first official 2-story shipping container home in the US was designed by Southern California architect Peter DeMaria in 2006. The only big obstacle that he encountered during construction of his shipping container pad was making sure that the house passed all of the strict guidelines of the Uniform Building Code (UBC).
The Redondo Beach House is an architecturally designed shipping container based contemporary house to suit your site and lifestyle.
The award-winning De Maria Design’s luxury beachside house was constructed using eight prefabricated, recycled steel shipping containers, which are integrated with some traditional building techniques.
Built on modern lines, the sleek and elegant building is resistant to fire, mold and termites. About 70 percent of this affordable construction was assembled in a shop making it inexpensive, time-efficient and resource-efficient.
Hybrid Seattle USA
Hybrid Seattle takes a highly stylized and creative approach to creating container architecture designs. Many of their works are, so far, purely academic exercises showing the potential possibilities of shipping container structures. However, they have build some small-scale modular housing units to test their theories and are in the process of developing a larger cargotecture housing project this year.
Came across this cool company that builds prefabricated structures and structures out of the ever-versatile shipping container. Formed in 2003, Hybrid's team focuses on "generating thought-provoking and ecologically sensitive solutions to our present and future urban cultural conditions." They coined the term "cargotecture" (not sure if they were the first) in 2003 to describe any building system that uses ISO shipping containers. Its cool to see a company trying to make prefab housing a little bit more attainable and mainstream for the masses. Check out their work...they have some cool designs and concept art.
