Container House
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I think this one here was on GD Australia a while back
OK if you like the industrial theme, at least it has deliberate design.
Here are some photos of others
http://shippingcontainerhomesaustralia.com.au/shipping-container-home-designs-ideas/
The bro in law is doing something similar in the central NI as a weekend house. Instead of containers though he has his hands on some of those prefabricated units used as temporary constructions. The things that look a bit like portacabins but are much stronger. His ones were previously a temporary bridge between buildings during the Waikato hospital building project.
He has a very narrow sloped site so these are quite ideal. basically putting together two long buildings on different ground levels joined by a central atrium stairway. -
@canefan said in Container House:
This is the NZ design. Anything but grand
Yep, thats out in West Melton, it was a fricking mess. Completely ignored all the point of using containers. Chopped out chunks meaning all the structual integrity of the container was gone & so on. Containers are great for small very basic houses, like a bach. Anything with scale they make no sense.
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@gollum said in Container House:
@canefan said in Container House:
This is the NZ design. Anything but grand
Yep, thats out in West Melton, it was a fricking mess. Completely ignored all the point of using containers. Chopped out chunks meaning all the structual integrity of the container was gone & so on. Containers are great for small very basic houses, like a bach. Anything with scale they make no sense.
They work in a big place as long as you take an approach like that Australian one where the container itself is embraced as a part of the design eg you don't try and disguise the fact internally.
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@Crucial said in Container House:
@gollum said in Container House:
@canefan said in Container House:
This is the NZ design. Anything but grand
Yep, thats out in West Melton, it was a fricking mess. Completely ignored all the point of using containers. Chopped out chunks meaning all the structual integrity of the container was gone & so on. Containers are great for small very basic houses, like a bach. Anything with scale they make no sense.
They work in a big place as long as you take an approach like that Australian one where the container itself is embraced as a part of the design eg you don't try and disguise the fact internally.
I sort of agree, the fact its 100% a container in most places works & might have been cheaper than a normal build. But anywhere in there that is open plan they've had to put in massive steel beams to hold it together structually. So they could have just built a normal house.
The container ones are cheap because a container, with its front door replaced with a big window / door only needs cladding & its done. Its structually great. But as soon as you chop holes in the sides structually its compromised, so you need to spend cash reinforcing. More holes, more reinforcing. Till eventually you end up paying the same as for a non-container house.
That Aussie one looks fricking awesome & as an architectual statement I love it. But it looks like a multimillionaire architect looking to make a cool statement as opposed to someone trying to build a house. I mean lets face it, thats a $1.5-$2m property, at least.
They are a trade off between the cheapness of using structually solid boxes & the limitations of having closed in darker than usual uniform rooms. Most people try to make the rooms more open & lose the upside of the boxes, while stiill contrained by their limitations.
Edit - built for $575k, sold for $1.4m so thats not bad(!)