On a tree-lined street in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, a former carriage house from the 1930s is now a colorful modern home that boasts bright orange shipping containers.
Commissioned by an artist, a gallerist, and their daughter, LOT-EK was tasked with renovating and expanding their existing two-story home. The new design rotates around an extension made out of stacked shipping containers, and features vibrant colors and a centralized-floor plan. As a result, the architecture is now organized around a polychromatic core volume that extends from the ground floor to the roof terrace.
The redesign includes a bright orange penthouse, which was retrofitted out of four stacked shipping containers. This part of the house dictates the flow between each space and provides access to an external rooftop terrace. The same color continues throughout?intersecting, connecting, and organizing various internal sections.
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This duplex creatively reuses shipping containers as home additions that can serve as guest bedrooms, offices, or art studios. “The intent was to give the homeowner a place where they felt inspired to live and work,” says Rios. With one unit already sold, Unit B, which mirrors the same floor plan with more feminine finishes, is being offered for $499,000.
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In her discussions with Reynolds, Rios requested that the architecture of the building reflect the shipping containers in the backyard. The modular appearance of the duplex, clad in white Hardie plank siding, mimics the look of a two-story container home. With large windows and 11-foot-tall ceilings, the two-bedroom, three-bath residence feels more spacious than its 1,484 square feet. On the ground floor, the living, dining, and kitchen areas flow into one another; potential guests in the shipping container also have easy access to a full bath of their own. A steel-and-wood floating staircase leads to the second floor, which holds two bedrooms with patio access.
“This home brings a downtown high-rise feel with your own private work space and is literally steps away from one of the most popular neighborhoods in Austin,” says Rios. “The east side is vibrant, funky, and very open to new concepts. There is no other place I would have rather built my first home including the shipping containers.”
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An attractive shipping container house shows the benefits of prefab living.
It was an almost-unheard of price point in New York: $100 per square foot for a new home. That?s what a pop-up shipping container structure that was displayed in the West Village in 2010 promised Manhattanites. The sleek, 320-square-foot MEKA home, designed by Jason Halter and Christos Marcopoulous and featuring 70% recycled materials, was a strong showing for prefab construction.
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A shipping container home tackles temperature control in a tropical environment.
For a site southeast of Jakarta, a young Indonesian couple asked eco-minded firm Atelier Riri to design a fun, contemporary home with designated spaces for their two kids to exercise their creativity. The project?s modest budget (approximately $55,000) led the architects to use shipping containers?a bold move given the region?s sweltering climate.
“By concentrating on humidity and temperature control, we found economical ways to facilitate a comfortable environment inside a metal box,” says the firm?s founder, Novriansyah Yakub. His team crisscrossed four containers Lincoln Log-style and added shutters, windows, and sliding doors to create a cross-ventilation system. Layers of recycled pine, glass wool, and planter mesh on top of the containers further decrease temperature. Cost-effective elements continue inside the three-bedroom home, including custom wood furnishings and polished concrete floors. A roof garden equipped for rainwater harvesting connects to the residence?s crown jewel: a bright red game room, now chock-full of toys.
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Based on three primary themes: Healthy, Simple, Efficient. This Architect wants the design to inspire residents to live without toxic materials, consume less overall, and use resources wisely. This compact urban home design would allow the home to be inserted into small, otherwise-wasted lots while still providing a decent amount of living space for residents. The staggered design of the two containers allows for increased upper-floor area as well as an interesting visual effect. The product would do equally well on its own or in a larger community full of similar units.