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Shipping Container Homes Flexibility In Being Modular.

June 28, 2012
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Shipping container homes are the home of the future due to their extremely flexible structures. Although many people have an idea of what their ideal home looks like in their mind ask them to sketch or design it and things start becoming rather foggy. In reality we are often told things or fed things...

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“Eco-Pak” shipping container home design.

June 13, 2012
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“Eco-Pak” shipping container home design.

The original prototype Eco-Pak house constructed in Turkey throws up some interesting ideas about shipping container home design due to not only making the shipping container part of the home. But also the fact that you can utilise the shipping container to transport a lot of the equipment and materials required for the build....

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Shipping Container Student Accommodation in Amsterdam.

June 13, 2012
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Shipping Container Student Accommodation in Amsterdam.

One of the most interesting shipping container home projects has been the colourful container homes in Amsterdam utilised for student accommodation. We have talked about these before and its good to see the buildings are still causing a bit of media interest. Not only because of being a cheap solution to housing for students...

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Spherical Oil Silos Into Homes

May 25, 2012
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Spherical Oil Silos Into Homes

The initial thoughts would be contamination but then again depends where in the world the oil silo’s are as environmental laws may actually force things beyond what most people would assume. This idea by PinkCloud.DK is a clever one where it sees new sustainable buildings and homes developed out of portable and already well...

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Sliced Steel Silo Turned Into A home.

May 25, 2012
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Sliced Steel Silo Turned Into A home.

  When I look at grain silo’s and then seeing these images its not hard to look at them in a completely different way than before. Taking a tall cylindrical building you can either utilize it on multiple levels or slice it up into ground level units. Elevated solar panels provide shade and power...

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