Beautiful Houses made with Cargo containers!

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Time to get innovative with shipping containers.  Below is a list of few beautiful homes, that are amazingly cozy and well equipped as a modern day home: 

Shipping Container Guest House

Poteet Architects in San Antonio, Texas recently constructed this shipping container house for a local client to use as a tiny guest house in her artist community. The plan is to also use it as a summer house, an art house and for entertaining. The owner enjoys the shipping container house for its uncluttered, sunlit appeal and the wonderful blue color. 

Redondo Beach House, DeMaria Design, Manhattan Beach, Calif.

The Redondo Beach House from prefab pioneer Peter DeMaria is made from eight shipping containers. This spacious pad, 20-foot ceilings and an outdoor lap pool in the laidback community of Redondo Beach has garnered a fair amount of mainstream press — including a spot on CNN — and won coveted architectural awards, making it the definitive shipping container trophy home.

 LOT-EK Container Home Kit (CHK)

Lot-ek’s scalable system comes fully equipped and ready to plop on-site with built-in electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and fully insulated AND furnished and is capable of being placed anywhere from 640-2560 square feet. The CHK system comes in two different series- Compact and Loft, and boasts 8×8 floor-to-ceiling windows, built-in closets, and wood floors.

Week house from shipping containers.

The real estate domain has been always a place where prices grew constantly. This exact reason pushed people to seek alternatives to their offer.  Jure Kotonik has an answer to that issue. He designed  a two story 300 square foot container house that brings massive benefits to their owners : very low end-price compared to traditional housing , it is assembled in a matter of days and most of all its easy to move.

Kalkin’s Shipping Container Homes.

This creation over here defies the anything you knew before in matter of houses. This beauty over here is made out of containers. New Jersey architect Adam Kalkin designed and build his own house from  recycled shipping containers. Among many reasons to do that there is  price( a used one costs under $ 1000 ) and durability.

Container City, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London

Container City is an innovative and extremely flexible system that opens avenues for affordable and stylish accommodation with trendy and colorful bit of architecture. Designed by Urban Space Management, the system is build by linking shipping containers together to provide high strength, prefabricated steel modules.

Port-A-Bach

Atelier workshop’s Port-a-Bach shipping container home is a small, energy efficient and environmentally friendly portable home you can spin into dwelling that folds up into a fully enclosed steel shell. Giving a new dimension to portability, this 20-foot container has been transformed into an entire studio apartment.

Greentainer

Designed by Exposure Architects, the Greentainer Project in Gandino, Italy is a perfect combination of amazing design sense and reusability of existing resources. This beautiful shipping container home incorporates floor to ceiling windows to provide ample amounts of light.

Containers of Hope, a $40,000 Home by Benjamin Garcia Saxe.

Benjamin Garcia Saxe has built  with $ 40,000  an interesting place to live in Costa Rica. This project concentrates more on a communion with nature than actually building. This house is very chic and modern but it only takes a small amount of materials and space to function.

Source: Greendiary.com , homedit.com

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