Shipping Container Homes: 8 Innovative Designs

Mother Nature Network:

The rise of innovative green architecture has created in increasingly in-vogue practice: rejiggering, stacking and linking rugged and versatile freight shipping containers and transforming them into fully inhabitable homes.

Below are eight particularly eye-catching recycled shipping container dwellings -- ranging from off-the-grid vacation retreats to beachside palaces to traditional-looking three-bedroom family homes -- that we wouldn't mind coming home to (at least for a couple of nights).

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Comments

[VapeGirl]

01:58 AM on 02/25/2010

Wouldn't it be awesome if someone with the means and money could buy up a few thousand shipping containers and turn them into homes for the people of Haiti?

[Punkynsnow]

03:18 PM on 02/24/2010

Interesting. Wonder what the costs are like? I also wonder if they'd work in a place that gets a lot of hurricanes, like Florida.

[anathema device]

11:42 AM on 02/24/2010

I've seen some really cool shipping container homes and offices, and it's great to see them catching on in popularity. I know land is expensive, but there could be an answer to housing problems in there, somewhere.

[JScott]

11:12 AM on 02/24/2010

Innovative but not particularly affordable. Manuf. housing can go wider and longer (16'x66').
But then again not particularly affordable, it's the land underneath that costs.

[thewho77]

10:34 AM on 02/24/2010

They really look cool. And they could be inexpensive to build.