We recently found out at our R2x20 project was voted one of the best container projects of 2009 by Jetson Green. We are honored to received the recognition. And we will keep working and searching for solutions for better housing for all.
Jetson Green’s 10 Shipping Container Projects of 2009.
This interesting solution of container home can be found in Pont Péant in Bretagne. This home is made up of four forty-foot containers.
The containers are fully wrapped of what seems like metal panels making it visually clean and simple.
This structurally daring home by CG Architects also incorporates green roof for its two lower roofs.
Found via reflexdéco.
Simple yet beautiful. Christophe Nogry’s house extension in the suburb of Nantes was constructed using one 40-foot and one 20-foot shipping containers.
Due to the narrowness of the site, shipping container was a perfect solution for the addition. To cope with shipping container proportion, a storage wall system was designed for one side while the connecting bridge enlarge the living areas makes it a more comfortable living area.
The second floor contains a new master bedroom with en-suite bathroom.
via Archdaily.
Photos by Stéphane Chalmeau.
We were featured on a documentary ‘Save My Planet’ on Live Well Network about our interest in creating eco-friendly affordable income housing out of shipping containers in Thailand. You can watch our segment at this link.
This Medical Complex Housing Quarters in Sudan is made out of discarded shipping containers that are laying around the city center of Soba, Sudan. Tam architecture carefully converted those shipping containers into this amazing housing for international staff. The containers are organized around the courtyard full of mango trees. It consists of 90 x 20ft containers for housing and 7 x 40 ft containers for the cafeteria. Every housing unit is 20sqm and it is constructed out of one and a half containers.
The containers are insulated with a ‘layer system’. The interior wall of the containers are insulated with insulating panels. The outer ‘skin’ is covered with a second insulated roof and a bamboo brise soleil panel system. In this way the sun rays never hit the containers.
Found via designboom.
A giant human-shaped herb garden was created by Japanese landscape design studio EARTHSCAPE.
The garden is transported in shipping containers which are converted into cafe and shop.
As you may know, Site-Specific has been experimenting with two of human necessities. One is shelter. Another is food. We thinks that it is great the this project combined two into one.
Found via dezeen.
Khun Bumrung – the owner of the first R-2 x 20 has told us that he wants to sale his home. He is asking for 350,000.00 baht for the home. It will take about another 100,000 baht to move and refinished the home to somewhere within the Bangkok metro area.
Thailand only please. You can contact through our email.
We went through many iterations of the design for Bangkok Green Home before we came up with the final version. Since the program requirement is so large and complex, the design looked too much like an office building in the beginning.
We later worked out with our client to eliminate some of the functions and combine some of the programs. Later, the home is about 75% of the original volume. 
An aspiring young politician approached us in our “Eco Living 101″ model home asking us to design a home for him and his extended family. At that time, he had been converting his home to utilized several the sustainable systems such as grey water to water his garden. However the home was becoming too small for him and his family.
After a little more than year of working together with us, we will be starting the construction of his new home shortly.
The home is designed for four families to be living together. With a rather complex programmatic requirements, some of the spaces are designed to be shared by all families, some by only two families while still maintaining privacy for all individual.
The home is designed for tropical climate. There is cross ventilation for all rooms. Vertical ventilation has also been design for all major living areas. The exterior walls are insulated with recycle insulation material. On the south and west facing wall, there is an additional layer of climbing plant to block the sun from reaching the wall surface.
There are also self composting septic system. Sink water will be use to flushing toilet. And shower and laundry water (with bio-degradable soap of course) will be used to water the edible garden.
The home will be constructed of 12 re-appropriated high-cube containers and 6 prefabricated modules. An additional container will be converted into a natural swimming pool on the roof with roof garden to prevent the heat transmission from the sun.
This small container home was built by our collaborator – BlueBrown recently. It is a small home with one bedroom, one bathroom and a living area for a young family in Thailand.
It was designed using two twenty-foot containers and a prefabricated bathroom unit, as an exercise in the making of a good, affordable housing for Thais which our government cannot seems to manage.
This home is on the outskirt of Bangkok where temperature is always high. The house is insulated with recycled insulation material with a layer of roof above the containers to prevent the heat transmission into habitable areas.
Thank you BlueBrown for the photos.
