In the last post, I talked about a woman who used a shipping container as her home. That video turned on my in-depth-google-search skills and I came across an article where shipping containers were actually being used as home construction in Canada. Not most of us know this, but shipping containers are designed to hold a lot of weight and are also fireproof, weatherproof and mold-proof, so architects and designers decided of a way that this great structure can be applied in the spaces we live in. A company called Maison IDEKIT, owned by a coupled named Bernard Morin and his wife Joyce Labelle wanted to take the idea of using a shipping container as part of the structure of a home and make it livable in the Canadian weather, and that's exactly what they did. Along with a team of engineers, they were able to design a 3,000 sq ft home that incorporated about seven shipping containers along with regular building materials such as spray foam insulation, plywood etc... A regular 3,000 sq ft home can cost around $400, 000, but this home only cost $175, 000 and only took about ten months to build! . The small downside to this type of project is that internally, the flaws of the shipping containers are visible ( such as graffiti, serial numbers, dents etc...) but nothing a little paint can't fix!. This is an example of a way we can incorporate these containers appropriately into our building structures, and it makes sense. They lower the pricing of the house, take a short amount of time to build and removes the unnecessary waste of shipping containers, but it really all comes down to launching this product so that it can have a global impact and we can change our attitudes on how we build the spaces we live in and how to re-use materials that can withstand certain elements and issues.
The Exterior of the shipping container home.
\Staircase area
living/dining, kitchen area
All info and images from: http://www.lowimpactliving.com/blog/2009/07/07/affordable-shipping-container-house-in-quebec/
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