Day: mars 7, 2026
Designing community housing projects using clusters of recycled containers
Why clustered container housing is back on the table From student villages in Johannesburg to emergency shelters in Turkey and co-living projects in Rotterdam, one pattern revient systématiquement : les containers fonctionnent mieux en grappes qu’en unités isolées. A single recycled container as a “tiny house” is a strong image, but rarely an optimal answer
Creative small space design ideas for compact container apartments
Why compact container apartments feel smaller than they are A standard shipping container is not that tiny on le papier: a 40’ High Cube offers roughly 28–30 m² of floor area, with an interior width around 2,35 m. Yet once converted into an apartment, many occupants describe the same sensation: “It feels like a narrow
Recycled materials that transform the look and feel of container architecture
Container architecture has already broken one rule: a house does not have to start from a traditional masonry shell. The next logical step is to question the rest of the materials. If the structure is a recycled steel box, why should the cladding, insulation or interior finishes be brand new? In practice, recycled and upcycled