Circular economy principles applied to container construction and interior design
Turning a used shipping container into a home or workspace is already a form of recycling. But if we stop…
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…
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:…
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…
Fire safety considerations when insulating and cladding container homes
When you transform a steel shipping container into a dwelling, fire safety quickly stops being une simple case of “add…
Green roofs and living walls on container houses to improve insulation and biodiversity
Can a steel box really become a cool, quiet, biodiverse mini-ecosystem? With a green roof and living walls, a container…
Modular container extensions as an affordable alternative to traditional home renovations
Extending an existing house has always been a compromise between budget, time and disruption. For beaucoup de propriétaires, the idea…
Adaptive reuse of containers for schools, clinics and emergency shelters
Transforming shipping containers into schools, clinics or emergency shelters is no longer a curiosity. It is becoming a real segment…
Soundproofing strategies that make container houses quiet and comfortable
It is one of the first surprises for many new container homeowners: the house looks great, the layout works, the…
Low cost foundation systems designed specifically for container buildings
When people imagine saving money with shipping containers, they often think about the structure itself and forget the line item…