Shipping Container Building

[camperinventor]

Nice overall design. You don't need the container for this design, though. The lumber and glass you used totally defeat the whole point of using the container. You'd spend less and get better performance just using the raw materials.

[jasonasteele]

@camperinventor

I get this comment over and over. Please read the complete description. My primary goal was never to create a building using a shipping container. The shipping containers initial purpose was material storage for a construction site. Utilizing the object as an accessory structure was a secondary result of having the shipping container on site. The idea was instead of selling or transporting the container off-site, it could provide 3/4 of the structure for an additional building.

[lecochonbleu]

@jasonasteele You decided to use a container you already had, not bought for accommodation, originally a walk-in storage unit.

It is interesting, though, reading your description as there are huge fans of all kinds of notions of converting shipping containers to domestic living spaces. So, it's worth pointing that out to you. From what you wrote, this seemed unknown to you

There are hoards of utilitarian space fans also. Hence people asking why use particularly a shipping container in this way

[lecochonbleu]

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... Still, your design is very nice. A lovely little room would come from this. It's a stripped down version of a garden room from a shipping container in a show garden at this year's Chelsea Flower Show in London (I think it was a Canadian or 'the' Canadian garden, an eco-garden to use up each drop of water.)

Again, though, camperinventor is right, in isolation, a shipping container isn't best for this design, It's very expensive to get a shipping container to take so much from it.

[newcomer9747]

All is good and well, until someone mentions the word "white trash"

[donnyab]

@newcomer9747

lol not necessarily

[lecochonbleu]

@newcomer9747

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[Ddonko]

Haiti has lots of containers, as they import almost everything and have very few exports. Most shippers leave the containers behind, as the cost to return them outstrips their value. What Haitians need is a leader to pull them together and teach them how to do it.

[jasonasteele]

@Ddonko

Exactly! I've been speaking to a few organizations to address the housing / building needs of Haiti. I would very much like to travel there for a short time and offer help and guidance and learn more about the situation in person. I feel many social and economic issues can be resolved through creative design solutions.

[southernone1]

@jasonasteele Do you have any bigger sized plans for a container house ? I would be more than interested ! Thank you

[rudoman22]

To me it seems nice for just one person... not more than 2 at least. A little small.

[twofoot65]

Nice rendering, terrible music choice. LOL

[dangerdon31]

What computer program did you use in this construction?

[jasonasteele]

This was modeled in SketchUp V6. I'm on Google SketchUp V7 now and love it's additional features.

[Campsicle]

So iwould like to know if Someone could just send all the shipping containers to Haiti with all the supplies they need, like tools, machinery ect. Then they can rebuild using the containers as either temp homes sterile care spaces ect.

[jasonasteele]

Yes, I believe there's an organization that was doing this for African villages to provide healthcare to remote areas. It was a fully self contained, fully stocked healthcare clinic. Then the doctors just flew in via Doctors without Borders or something and provided care for like a couple hundred mile radius.

[lecochonbleu]

@Campsicle

Great idea for disaster areas. Just someone in an organisation to pool existing charitable funds into negotiating for loads of unused containers and chartering a ship to the area. Then loading onto a lorry a time, and taking off some of the metal to fit screens and doors.

It wood surely beat loading the wood around with all the time of nailing it all together.

[Campsicle]

I like the idea, good use of surplus materials. The issue with this idea though it is cost prohibitive in the labor aspect, like the other guy said, doing so much modification and removing so much material to replace and fit with other things like sliding doors and windows don't seem to add to any savings, besides what about insulation value? If needed. These are the issues I see, please respond keep these discutions going. Peace

[jasonasteele]

This wasn't necessarily designed as a structure designed from a shipping container, it was more a matter of what to do with an item leftover from construction, and turn change it's function.

If I were using the shipping container as a structure from the onset (not for storing construction materials), then it would look quite different. Maybe that's something worth investigating - i.e. shipping container relief shelter for Haiti?

[bigDbigDbigD]

@Campsicle I don't see that there was any use of surplus materials.The container was still usable and the lumber was new

[89239dfkdk]

It looks really cool. BUT, why even bother with the container. You've added so much shit around it and taken away so much of its walls -- why even use it in the first place?

[DominickBlack]

Presto! A wonderful pool-house is virtually born!!!

Love it!

All it needs now is a pool table!

Bouncy bouncy bouncy!!!!

[123kush]

Great job! i will be building a shipping container house soon.

[gustavoariasjara]

esta bueno... pero el container no es necesario, no se utiliza su estructura

[4vermont]

Well Done. Don't sweat the haters.

Thanks for attaching links.

[CreoleCommando]

Best of luck to u, hope u post the end result.

[mistajacks]

It seems that the want to increase the square footage of the shipping container immediately negated the use of the container itself. Structurally, the video proposes a LeCorbusian pilotis system, with columns supporting the sloped roof. The project would be alot stronger and easier to coordinate without the container. Spatially, the project looks enjoyable. Mies VanDerRohe's Barcelona Pavillion comes to mind with this project.

[DSKen]

Yes.. it would be easier with out the container..

my thoughts it to do this in a remote area.

the container could be used to ship all the materials inside. then at the site incorporate the container in the build. thus, maximizing ...

[mistajacks]

Why hide the fact that the structure is a shipping container? According to Modernism, there is something to be said about the honesty of materials. The Villa Savoye was also in a remote area, so was the Farnsworth House. Yet, both houses were an execution in new methods and materials of construction for the time. The incorporation of new materials such as concrete and steel with glass were explorations of how later works of Architecture would be developed.

[stardust13]

Personally I would love nothing more than to purchase land in a remote area, bring in shipping containers and stack them forming a much higher structure as well as placing a 2nd row also stacked, It would make a wonderful home if done correctly and you have a very sturdy and durable base to build on.

[mistajacks]

Remember the structure is only as strong as the foundation it sits upon.  Have you seen the shipping container work of the office LoTek?

[dangerdon31]

@stardust13 I manufacted these for a Suadi company and man I tell ya it's so much more affordable and ease of design.

[lecochonbleu]

@stardust13

Just been dreaming that not long ago myself. Internal courtyards designs with gardens and fountain! Aah, sigh.

If I didn't just have chronic fatigue syndrome etc. !!! Aw.

[zipacna1980]

Take a few sticks, OSB and some polistirol for insulation. It will be much cheaper and better beggar's vault.

[douglundy]

somebody is selling shipping containers, wood frame is cheaper, easier and correct

[justmom66]

this is a really awesome idea! i want one lol

[REDDIRTGIRL]

Where did you find such a good price? I'm in the Dallas area, and everyone wants around $2,000 for a standard 40 footer.

[Soundtracking]

This is garbage. Where do I begin?

Too many design flaws to even bother mentioning.

[leloodallasmultipass]

great comment! useful.

[jezboe]

creepy

[chas7032]

Awsone work, I have been working on a home from Shipping Container. You have made a great deck/Pool or Sana room look great. Thank, there is someone else thinking OUTSIDE THE BOX, (or inside it)

[johnevans7]

Wel done

[johnevans7]

Brilliant well done

[isbuinfo]

Yes, a well done video. May we suggest you look into Ceramic Insulation paints. That is the most widely used for ISBU shipping container homes externally. ...quite inexpensive and very easy to apply.

[Odziz]

Nice video, one of the better animations I've seen using this concept.