Medical Complex for Salam Center in Sudan

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.

MDL 5.5X6

Site-Specific and Bluebrown has joined forces and launched Prefab Company Limited.  The focus of this newly founded company is to further research and develop technology for prefabricated construction system in Thailand.

We have recently introduced the first product of our up coming product line.  It is a small 34 square meter home with one bedroom, one bathroom, one living room and an outdoor patio with small kitchenette.  The price of the home starts at 600,000.00 Thai Baht.

The home was designed around the concept of shipping container but with improved dimensions allowing higher ceiling height and wider width. 

The structures are made from re-approprited or recycled steel elements where possible.  The exterior finish is made from a wood product that has been engineered from saw dust and recycled milk bottles.

The home is available initially for Thai market with several roof options.

Recycled-Container Chic

This is an interesting article in the New York Times.  I hope this idea will become more popular in Thailand.

Container City II

Container City II is another example of large scale residential development constructed entirely out of shipping containers.  Container City II is in London.

Visit their website here.

Container Student Housing

Keetwonen, a student housing project in Amsterdam is made from reused shipping containers.  It is consist of 1000 living units plus a cafe a supermarket and other amenities. The housing is designed by TempoHousing.  This is an excellent example to demonstrate that shipping containers can serve as functional and comfortable living space in large scale.

Found via Inhabitat.