When thinking about designing sustainable homes finding innovative uses for otherwise discarded materials is fundamental.
8 shipping container house.
That means that over 11 million shipping containers could potentially be upcycled into stunning homes made from materials that might otherwise end up in the landfill.
Shipping container homes are fairly easy to move.
Instead the roughly 2 700 square foot house 251 75 square meters to be exact has a rugged overall look combining glass windows corrugated metal siding and wooden elements like eaves and.
There are two standard sizes for shipping containers.
This makes a shipping container house super eco friendly.
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There are over 17 million shipping containers in the world and only about 6 million of them are in use.
Since transporting goods is the entire purpose of a shipping container it s built to be portable.
Covering a surface of 160 sq.
Usually a flat bed truck can move a shipping container house from one place to another.
And 40 x 8 x 8 with a surface of 320 sq.
A shipping container house is any dwelling made from a shipping container but the resulting structures can be quite diverse.
A used 20 footer costs anywhere between 1 500 and 3 000 whereas a 40 footer costs 3 500 4 500.