Container Guest House / Poteet Architects
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The Container Guest House is the first of several projects by Poteet Architects we will be featuring. As a national award-winning firm, Poteet Architects is best known for their sensitive adaptive reuse of existing buildings and a fresh, rigorous approach to modern interior design. This project originated from Poteet Architects’s client’s wish to experiment with shipping containers. She lives in a small warehouse on a former industrial site just south of downtown. The finished project serves as a guesthouse and is fitted with a shower/WC and a custom stainless sink. The large steel and glass lift/slide and end window wall open the interior to the surrounding landscape. The remainder of the interior is used as a garden shed.
Architect: Poteet Architects
Location: San Antonio, Texas, USA
Project Team: Jim Poteet, Brett Freeman, Isadora Sintes, Shane Valentine
Contractor: Poteet Architects
Project Area: 320 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Chris Cooper
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The emphasis was on sustainable strategies– first, the recycling of a “one-way” container for a new and permanent use. The planted roof is held off the container top, providing shade and air-flow to reduce heat gain. The interior is insulated with spray foam then lined with bamboo plywood, equally appropriate for the floor as the walls. The grey water from the sink and shower is captured for roof irrigation. The WC is a composting toilet. The rear of the container is screened by wire mesh panels which will eventually be covered in evergreen vines.
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Other innovative material choices informed the design: the container “floats” on a foundation of recycled telephone poles. The deck is made up of HVAC equipment pads (made of recycled soda bottles) set in a steel frame. The exterior light fixtures are blades from a tractor disc plow—a common sight in south Texas.
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I love it!
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Crisp design, creative reuse, ample filtered daylight, lots of plants, great colors.
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Can I live here??
I’d like to see something like this sent over to Haiti. If you could somehow break down the container into smaller volumes, perhaps you can fit them inside another container, or have 10 of these houses take up the space on one container.
These can be made in the USA and shipped anywhere needed.
Funny, I never see $/ft^2 mentioned.
Hi, I love it! A great way to recycle those huge empty steel boxes.
But please tell me – is its structural strength and integrity sufficient for transportation – esp. when being craned on/off vehicles?
Are you selling them? If so, how much for?
Keep up the good work, Good luck!
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8:28 PM Apr 14th
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10:19 PM Apr 14th
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4:23 AM Apr 15th
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5:34 AM Apr 15th
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7:31 AM Apr 15th
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7:58 AM Apr 15th
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8:27 AM Apr 15th
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12:48 PM Apr 15th
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1:52 PM Apr 15th
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5:39 PM Apr 15th
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8:01 PM Apr 15th
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12:53 AM Apr 16th
Дом из обычного контейнера http://goo.gl/Adowo креатив,хуле :) #creative
1:03 AM Apr 16th
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5:59 AM Apr 16th
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8:37 AM Apr 16th
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11:13 AM Apr 16th
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10:36 PM Apr 16th
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3:50 AM Apr 18th
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1:56 AM Apr 19th
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2:55 AM Apr 19th
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4:51 PM Apr 19th
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3:36 PM Apr 20th
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4:35 AM Apr 21st
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5:09 AM Apr 21st
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8:31 AM Apr 21st
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10:54 AM Apr 25th
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12:06 AM May 5th
It would be cool to have one of these for an art studio http://is.gd/pBui18 @plethoraapp
5:17 AM May 5th
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11:40 AM May 8th
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10:09 PM May 8th
Shipping container repurposed as a guest house. Amazing #architecture project! http://t.co/Z9gB150
11:21 AM Jun 8th
Ini dia Green Building..meskipun warnanya hitam :) http://www.archdaily.com/127570/container-guest-house-poteet-architects/
8:39 AM Jun 15th
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12:56 PM Jun 15th
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8:23 AM Jul 15th
The guest house made out of a lorry container. http://bit.ly/eHPRAJ
6:03 AM Jul 28th
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11:04 AM Jul 28th
What a wonderful studio this would be: Container Guest House | ArchDaily http://t.co/c9tm268 via @archdaily HT @DooneyStudio
11:44 AM Jul 28th
How awesome! Container guest house : http://www.archdaily.com/127570/container-guest-house-poteet-architects/ #architecture
5:52 PM Jul 29th
B&Bs r as inidividual as thr owners- here's good eg:Container Guest House / Poteet Architects | ArchDaily http://t.co/bo6mUVO via @archdaily
6:22 PM Aug 4th
Awesome Container Guest House from Poteet Architects in San Antonio http://t.co/cKtiUre via @archdaily
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