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11 Tips You Need To Know Before Building A Shipping Container Home

Rory Stott — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:30:32 +0000

One of the more niche trends in sustainable design of the past few years has been the re-use of shipping containers in order to create the structure of a building. Due to their convenient size, shipping containers are well-suited for use in houses and their appeal lies in their apparent simplicity: you get a room delivered in one piece, and you can stack them together to make multiple rooms or join them up to make larger rooms.

Renzo Piano and G124 to Transform Italian Suburbs with Shipping Containers

Holly Giermann — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

A group of six young architects under the leadership of Renzo Piano have been hard at work transforming unused spaces within Italy's suburban framework. The team, known as G124, focuses its efforts on injecting life back into overlooked and forgotten areas of its built environment and stimulating the local economy through design. This most recently entailed transforming a long abandoned area under a viaduct in northeast Rome into a bustling cultural hot-spot.

From Grain Silo to Shipping Container Student Housing

Vanessa Quirk — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:30:00 +0000

Inhabitat has just featured an unlikely new student housing project in Johannesburg: Mill Junction, a student complex that consists of two former grain silos topped with shipping containers. According to its developers, Citiq Property Developers, the energy and money-saving project re-directs money towards communal facilities, proving popular with students. As a result, Mill Junction, the second shipping-container housing project built by the Developers, may be the second of many more. More info at Inhabitat.

The Pros and Cons of Cargo Container Architecture

Brian Pagnotta — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:00:56 +0000

Resources about the pros and cons of cargo container architecture can be found here.