Shipping container home

Containers are designed to be supported by their four corners making a very simple foundation possible. David Fenster of Modulus in sunny California to build this beauty. The place where containers really don’t make any sense is housing.

Shipping containers. People are building actual homes from these containers. Everything is prefabricated and the house can be shipped across the world.

All of our designs utilize re-purposed shipping containers as their primary structure. Yet GizMag breathlessly reports the announcements of these (dead at conception) ideas.

Reusable shipping containers provide a cost effective and sustainable approach to building design. Building traditional wood townhouses and condos is good work for a general contractor. Home is a necessity for everyone: some people just need a shelter to live while others may want to build a masterpiece. Shipping containers are made to be stacked on top of each other while holding hundreds of pounds of cargo. Barbara and Matt Mooney caused quite a stir when they bought one of the best views in Dallas—and then built an unusual home. Lettuce House was built in China in 2014 by the architecture firm Sustainable Lifestyle Lab.

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