Shipping Container Housing Guide

How to build a house from shipping containers?

An important step in building a home from shipping containers is insulation.
Here you can see a good method of insulation: Ceramic Insulation Paint.

Why use a shipping container to build a house?

Shipping containers meet most important criteria: robust, affordable, rapid deplyment, re-usable. After all … they are made to be stackable, they have to last despite being shipped across oceans and continents. There is another important criteria: beauty, but this is something that is up to you (and perhaps your architect).
Beside meeting these general criteria, containers offer more specific benefits, like:

  • availability (in the US there is a surplus of them)
  • economy (you can find used containers as low as $1500 on eBay in US)
  • malleability
  • durability (they survive salt air and cranes)
  • portability
  • modularity
  • transformability.

    • A container-based home offers a fast, green, and sustainable approach for building. These intermodal steel units are manufactured in a factory-controlled environment so they are standardized and reliable. They can be used to build an average-sized home with almost no wood.

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