Building a home that is inexpensive and unique in same time is real challenge today. A perfect example how home can be built with less money is this house which is designed by architects Claire Helene Drouin and Jean Marie Sanchez.
The entire house is built with 15 recycled shipping containers. After it is finished, you would never notice that it is built from containers and it has a very fashionable design.
This home is built in Marseille, France where you can find a plenty of shipping containers that are waiting to be recycled and used again. Maybe the coolest fact is that this home is pretty mobile and it could be eventually relocated to another place.
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What I would love to know: How much did it cost to build? and What are the spec’s (rooms, bathrooms, etc.)?
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You can go nine high on these. On a heavy slope block can be a cheap option!
Does the recycled nature of the containers mean they are damaged or rusted?
well one container might cost around 2000 dollars. they are usually used for scrap metal, but a house like this that contains about 10 containers with everything could be around 30,000 dollar.s I have a link as well, http://www.opentopix.com/topic/off-beat/recycled-homes-made-out-of-huge-containers
This story highlights the problem with blogs where there is no professional journalism. The headline of the story is “Inexpensive Home Built With Recycled Containers” and while they are great pictures you fail to give us information about the cost. So instead of leaving here saying, “wow, what a neat alternative” I am instead leaving wondering what the hell this is even about. Cost-effective, green technology is so rare that when some comes up we should be trumpeting that from the rooftops.
I like how there are rock climbers in the backyard! lol
I would love to know where this is…specifically, the zoning requirements, etc…
Um, how insulated is that? Doesn’t seem like for all the fuss it’d be too energy efficient in terms of insulation. Eh, but what do i know…
Are they insulating each containers exterior facing walls? I would assumes the thermal load would heat each container like an oven in the summer months?
The containers cost a lot of $, that’s why we recycle them after first use. Wood frame is not much more expensive.. and definitely easier to get mortgages for, let alone building permits.
Interesting. But is it insulated? how?
The containers are around $2000 a piece, times 15 containers, This is approximately $30,000 FOR THE SHELL ONLY. The rest of the house still has to be built. In the end, this really isn’t as inexpensive as people like to think. And the specialized labor it takes to work with the metal makes it much more difficult.
Good luck trying to install wireless internet in this home. Metal walls = lots of interference. Either the occupants will need to wire every room with plugs or install wireless access points in every room. (So much for sitting on your couch with a wireless laptop or iPad.)
I love this idea. Recycling is the bomb. Great job. Would love to see pics of the inside.
Oooh shiny, lots of pictures. Um, how about some text, some description, a little information perhaps?
What about insulation? It’s not going to do any good if someone is trying to heat a space with absolutely no insulation. It’s a neat idea but it needs to be taken further.
Has there been any thought on making homes in Haiti from these Containers? Get a company to donate a trip to the port full of empty (prefabbed) containers. Than have a group of people move them to the city and install them.
Get local doors, windows, etc. As much local workmanship as possible.
Cheap sturdy housing for a disaster area. How would one get in touch with the architects, Drouin and Sanchez? Give them a few weeks to come up with some ideas. I’m sure they could come up with something worth doing.
Seeing those pictures made me realize I need a rock climbing wall in my back yard
What are the number of bed rooms, bathrooms, kitchen, etc, etc and what is the cost ?. as I would be very interested in building something similar. Due to the high cost of housing here in the Caribbean.
For the one shown here which construction company built this and are their plans available to the general.
So cool! Still much cheaper than building a house. All of the problems mentioned above are but small work arounds and look at the size of that thing.
This is not new:
Any shipping port uses containers for accommodation.
Tokyo, London, Amsterdam and other cities have started to build housing complexes with them.
This is just a way of producing low cost housing that can be sold at high prices. Remember that the G20 states are maintaining their economies by gambling on real estate prices.
If you want a mobile home, buy one with wheels. No city is going to allow you to just move around when you feel like it – look at the way they treat traveling communities already.
This is just a cheap scam by people that don’t want to tackle the real problem – poor housing, overpriced land and out of control bankers.
I need blueprints to build house’s /Appts can u give me a price
What I’d like to see is a photo of the finished interior, but it’s still a neat idea. “The entire house is built with 15 recycled shipping containers. After it is finished, you would never notice that it is built from containers and it has a very fashionable design.”