Shipping Containers Homes

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Not just for resourceful homeowners, container architecture is taking the planet by storm. Recycled freight containers bring efficiency, flexibility and affordability to innovative green buildings, from small vacation cabins to movable cafes, schools, skyscrapers and residential shipping containers homes. Invented more than fifty years ago, the modern shipping container is the linchpin in our global distribution network of products. In the containers go toys, electronics, from China, textiles from India, grain from America and cars from Germany.

While a number of resourceful people have converted shipping containers to makeshift shelters for years, architects and green designers are also increasingly turning to the strong, cheap boxes as their building blocks. Shipping containers can be readily modified with a range of common comforts, and can be connected and stacked to create modular, efficient spaces for a fraction of the cost, labor and resources of more conventional materials.

Discover some of the exciting possibilities of shipping container architecture, from disaster relief shelters to luxury condos, green sheds, vacation homes and off-the-grid adventurers. See what makes them green as well as cutting edge

Shipping containers homes come in two standardized sizes: 40 x 8 x 8 feet and 20 x 8 x 8 feet. (They also come in specialized sizes, like 'high cubes' which are 9.5 feet high.) Because of their structural strength, they can be stacked up to nine rows high without compromising structural integrity. And because they need to line up precisely when loaded on ships, their dimensions are precise. Which helps in their reuse in construction.

However, costs should come down for larger projects or for individual projects done with large amounts of owner labor and ingenuity. Depending on your vision, the per-square-foot cost of construction using re-purposed shipping containers is reported to run from 50 to 65 percent of traditional construction. A bargain compared to traditional construction. Shipping containers homes are the best solution.

So what is this incredible box that faces wind, rain, salt, typhoons, extreme weight, dropping and bumping for years?

The common ISO Shipping container is 20' or 40' long; 8' wide; and 8'6" tall. The taller version named HQ, which means a High Cube (HQ) is the same dimensions but 1 foot taller. 20x8x9'6" or 40x8x9'6".

A special stronger steel named Corten steel that won't rust or corrode, Mold resistant, The Corten steel is used inside and out and is also stronger than normal steel. A 1.24" plywood floor made of hardwood. Either teak, birch, or keruing laminates to withstand tons of internal weight. Extremely adaptive to the most efficient Eco insulations

One or more of these incredible steel modules are the safest superstructure for a home, school, office, apartment, dormitory, storage unit, emergency shelter. ...where would you rather be in a storm, hurricane or earthquake? I think in a room made of strong Corten steel.... For many reasons, it's the strongest mobile or stationary structure in the world built to withstand typhoons, tornados, hurricanes and even earthquakes. Shipping containers homes are affordable and resistant.

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